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I have come to regard taxonomy as a completely bogus construct. As for location, just give every object a GUID and use that.

File names and folders no longer do it for me. I know that I have the Inventor model and plans for my TARDIS somewhere on the NAS. But I did them seven years ago and I have dozens of folders with inventor files.

Folders force me to think about the hardware layer, which drive did I put something on? This is all stuff that should be handled automatically.

So what I really want is a fast label based search. And of course Windows, macOS and Linux are all equally hopeless. They don't have the affordances on save file for a start.

If I had saved the files with the #DRWHO#TARDIS and #prop labels. I could find them in seconds (if the UI was so stupid and didn't freeze to search the disks all the time, I have 220TB of data you stupid stupid machine).

The difference between folders and labels as I see it are that as currently implemented, folders are constrained terms in the UI, you either use an existing one or consciously create a new one. Labels are usually freeform. So I might have saved the plans as #TARDIS or #TENNANT-TARDIS

@bobwyman @clay @dangillmor

Yesterday I went to see “Good”, starring David Tennant

Incredible play and incredible cast!

I knew nothing about it, because if Tennant is in it what else you need to know? And it was a very intense and moving story about the holocaust, splendidly narrated.

Highly recommended, if you have the opportunity to go!