Folders vs Tags Organization

The idea of folders rooted in the physical world is obsolete.Use a system with tags so you don't have to chose one or the other.

Are there people for whom it works better to have nearly as many folders as files?

I'd be more interested in a tagging file system for personal data like music, photos, documents etc. I orgainize my data in a hierarchical file system like most but I think tagging would be better for discoverability.

Usefullness of this is highly content specific. It maybe works for mp3s or videos/photos you made yourself and contain some metadata. I can't imagine tag based organization of all the random 2 mil. files I have that don't fit into these neat categories.I don't need access to most of these files unless I'm working on something relevant to them. When I work on X, I go to directory X and everything I need sits below X in some hierarchy. I'm never interested in anyth

I hate hierarchical filesystems.A lot of my older files, sadly, are stored in "SORT/Sort Me/To be sorted/Old computer/Sort again/Miscellaneous..." and the like. My server has an mlocate index, so I'll use mlocate, and I'll use find sometimes. I make sure to preserve metadata like last-modified/created dates, so I can use that to narrow things down.Newer stuff, I try to keep a bit more organized, but I still have lots of unmanaged stuff floa

Everyone one of these cloud storage services (Dropbox, Box, Drive, iCloud, S3, OneDrive) has adopted the same mental model of file storage that computer systems from the 80s devised to mimic filing cabinets. Namely: folders. I think a folder hierarchy has some value but they should really all be using a tagging system instead. Orgs tend to have multiple hierarchies based or org charts, projects, disciplines, timelines. Being able to tag documents across all or multiple would make browsing to the

Actually I don't care for any kind of organization for personal files. I just search.I have my _really_ important files that are cumbersome to recreate like a I have my to-read stuff in ~/Documents/booksAll my other files are slammed together in ~/Downloads. I search through the folder using everything.exe (on windows) or fsearch(on linux).That

It sounds like you want... folders. Genuinely. Or a tag system. Or some other metadata.Like, take this query for example: show me the folder(s), where my old University projects are stored. How would an AI, however powerful, know what are "university projects" if they aren't tagged as such? And if they were, why is the AI necessary?One approach I've tried before is: if you have a folder /projects/ with so many project folders in it that you don't even kno

I'll be the opposite voice: the file system isn't for precise organisation, it's just for storing. For organisation, the ideal thing to use is tags. Since most file systems don't have tags and using software for that would be a pain, the best way to do this is to list the tags in the file name.

Tags are arguably superior to folders for organising files, unfortunately the major OS don't seem to agree. I'm using the same (expanded, adapted) folder structure for all my files since I got my first computer, and it's survived multiple OS migrations, being synced between multiple devices with different form factors, multiple changes in life circumstances (school, undergrad, postgrad, work),... I love tags and I've used them in some parts (eg in my old mp3 collection, for a