On 03/22/2015 03:58 PM, Christian Reiner wrote:
> What I personally learned over the last decades in IT is that all approaches 
> to find "a better" or even "the right" hierarchy or structure to organize 
> ones 
> data are senseless. There is no such thing as "the right". That is always in 
> relation to a situation, or purpose or whatever.

I find that it is also is very heavily related to how the brains of the
people who are using it work.

> Let's FINALLY kill file hierarchies! Let's free ourselves! Revolution! 

Nope. The way my mind works, I love them. For example, I hate all those
photo or audio programs that slurp everything into a DB and they're not
individually broken out on disk. Drives me nuts. I like ones which build
a database of what you have on disk, and tag them for easy searching,
but that is added on top of the file hierarchy.

As for the rest of what you posted, I have no issue having those be
additional features, as long as there is still a "file hierarchy" option
or association there too (which you did indeed propose, despite your
"let's kill it" battle cry, above).
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