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Re:Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags” by jancsika on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:14PM (#30064141)
> With symlinks (or hard links for that matter) you can have folders work like tags in a real filesystem.

The word can is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Tagging system (at least the ones I've seen): enter the tags as autocompleted tokens in a single text entry. Possibly the system can autosuggest a number of tokens, possibly not, depending on your use case.

Symlinks-as-Tagging-System: I want to save a file called "foo.txt" and start editing it immediately. How do I enter the tags?

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Re:Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags” by hotdag on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:23PM (#30064237)
Presumably the same way you would enter tags in a regular program that has tags, except the datastructure would be stored as a disk file system. you dont necessarily have to manually run ln -s every time, the same way you dont have to run a sql insert to update a tumblr posts tags.
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