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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016) (www.nngroup.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Directory hierarchies are absolutely not a remnant from meatspace. The world "folder" is, but IRL folders are a totally different beast because they're not nestable. Tags and searching serve useful purposes but they don't replace directory trees.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Folders are absolutely nestable.

The problem with virtual folders is you can’t have one document in multiple folders without causing chaos because of how limiting that hierarchy is. This is why tagging is better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tell me you've never used a filing cabinet...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

For about a year I worked in a filing room. I saw a decent amount of filing methods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How does tagging deal with file locations and permissions?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Location is irrelevant and a legacy method of thought. Why would a digital file need to be held down to a single location? Sure, you could symlink it but that’s a crutch.

Tags can have permissions.

It’s all metadata.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I grok it I just have no idea how you are going to solve all the issues this involves. Like memory mapped I/O or air gapped networks where the file is in a physical location etc. it feels like you will just have to reinvent directory structure inside tags.

Dunno know, maybe make your own *nix that works this way and try to get attention to it.