Re:The time has come to replace file systems
by didgetmaster on Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:19PM
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You assume that there are fewer bank statements than 2002 files in your argument. What if you loaded in a million bank statements in 2005 but only created a few thousand files in 2002? With Didgets, I can tell how many objects have each tag attached so I order the search to eliminate based on how likely the set I am searching for has each tag.
Re:The time has come to replace file systems
by selfhoster11 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:44PM
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How many bank accounts does an average person have? Even for the most extreme cases, we're looking at the low hundreds of statements annually, at the maximum. If you're not an average person but instead a business or an archivist, then you need a custom system anyway.
I'm really not trying to criticise or diminish the value of your system. All I'm saying is that even without an additional tag (or hybrid tag+hierarchy) overlay, a hierarchical system can be quite useful as long it's well thought-out by the user.
I think the best system is actually a mix of hierarchy and tags. Top-level, very broad "semantic zones" (aka is this .PDF a bank statement, a cake recipe, a textbook, or some temporary file from the browser cache) would lend themselves to being represented as a shallow hierarchy, and items within a specific semantic zone could be then freely tagged or further subdivided into a hierarchy, whichever approach makes sense for that particular semantic zone.