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File systems are necessary, but not necessary for users. They are needed for computers, os's and applications but users could do fine with tags (the primary of
by noonespecial 13y ago
File systems are necessary, but not necessary for users. They are needed for computers, os's and applications but users could do fine with tags (the primary of which is the application that handles the file, traditionally the extension)
File systems will fade into a protocol like HTML and slip from users minds, but will remain the hard core tools of the makers and admins of systems.
- GhotiFish 13y agoI made a presentation on that subject actually. Tag based file systems. There's alot of ways you could make it more effective than the hierarchical structure we use right now.
- ctdonath 13y agoAnd a major feature of the latest OS X incarnation is...file tags.
- dharmatech 13y agoI've used Tabbles on Windows for file tagging. What other systems are there? http://tabbles.net/ http://tabbles.net/
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