Re:Taxonomy Is Hard
by fungiblecog on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @02:55PM
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Many people here are saying this is a search problem, but actually there are two distinct ways of finding information: search and browse. Unfortunately it is hard to support both without a lot of work.
Sometimes you want to locate a specific item - in which case you need a good way of searching - and sometimes you want to browse through related information so you want to see a hierarchical structure.
Google drive was originally designed on the principle that search was all you needed so it was all tag-based. And it was terrible as soon as you had a lot of data. So google was forced to introduce the ability to create a folder structure.
Sometimes you want to locate a specific item - in which case you need a good way of searching - and sometimes you want to browse through related information so you want to see a hierarchical structure.
Google drive was originally designed on the principle that search was all you needed so it was all tag-based. And it was terrible as soon as you had a lot of data. So google was forced to introduce the ability to create a folder structure.