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I don't see folders going away. (I like them much better than tags, frankly) Google Docs started out with no folders. They added them with Google Drive http:

by tarr11 14y ago

I don't see folders going away. (I like them much better than tags, frankly) Google Docs started out with no folders. They added them with Google Drive http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2375053 http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ... EverNote used to just have tags. Now they have "stacks", which seem to be hierarchical tags. I'm not sure who really uses that kind of stuff, it seems like quite a bit of work DropBox is obviously predicated on the idea of folders.

jessriedel 14y ago
GoogleDoc has them because it's integrated with GoogleDrive. GoogleDrive and DropBox have them for the same reason: for compatibility with the existing OS paradigm. This doesn't say much about the inevitability of the demise of folders except that Google and DropBox recognize that it won't happen for many years. But this is obvious given that Windows 8 and Mac OS X are both built on folders. (I don't know anything about EverNote.)