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Of note, even if you store your information remotely, it still makes more sense to organize it in a file system. That photo app is best done with folders and hi
by zanny 13y ago
Of note, even if you store your information remotely, it still makes more sense to organize it in a file system. That photo app is best done with folders and hierarchies, you organize your email in the same way, discrete information is best organized in groups, and that is all a filesystem is.
- JamisonM 13y agoI emphatically disagree on the photo app example. The only folders I use for my photos is by date and the only reason I do so is because of the limitations of the design of the computer on which those files are stored. Photos do not particularly lend themselves to hierarchies - one person's "Family and Friends" grouping might be arbitrary to someone else, that's why tags came along - they add information instead of putting items in silos.
- andrewflnr 13y agoI hope what makes the traditional filesystem obsolete is something with better support for non-treeish data, including tags.
- ori_b 13y agoA tag based file systems are equivalent to a hierarchy with symlinks (or directory hard links). If you don't allow tagging of tags, it's equivalent to restricting your hierarchy to one level. Tags and directory DAGs are the same.
- andrewflnr 13y agoTrue. Maybe we just need better interfaces for managing multiply-referenced files.