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Yet another company promoting a file management app to fix a problem that does not exist. It's not even particularly unique. I've seen at least dozen such solut
by teilo 14y ago
Yet another company promoting a file management app to fix a problem that does not exist. It's not even particularly unique. I've seen at least dozen such solutions. Even tried a couple of them (Anyone remember Brain - an associative array file management platform?). I always gave them up.
The real problem, I think, is that folders reflect reality. Tags do not. Most people are think of a file as belonging in one specific category. So you tag it as such. Very few people would bother trying to remember multiple tags to apply to their files. The process of organization is too cumbersome, so you stop doing it.
So what do you get if you only apply a single tag to a file? You get a flat list of folders. If the tags have a hierarchy, you get exactly the same thing as using folders. So why bother with tags?
With my Email I don't even use folders. In that case, I don't bother organizing anything. Search works just fine for me. In fact, search works just fine for most of my files these days.
- robomartin 14y ago"folders reflect reality" +1
- jmathai 14y agoI fought tooth and nail to not support proper albums for The OpenPhoto Project. After about 6 months I gave in and we implemented a native album API[1] (not something that rides on top of tags). It's true. The argument that tags do everything that albums do and more is false. Perhaps for an engineer but the brain thinks in terms of albums (or folders for files). Nature or nurture, it doesn't matter. This is not a battle you win with engineering. [1] https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/issues/124 https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/issues/124