Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)
This is good thinking, and mostly overlaps with what I&#x27;ve tried to do a few times, so I would love to see it finally happen somehow.<p>For example, the Newton storage system I worked on at Apple 1990-1996 was based on separating organization from storage so we could have multiple (tag and&#x2F;or hierarchy) organization systems. That eventually became the &quot;soup&quot; system in the shipping Newton OS, where objects were retrieved by content rather than hierarchy.<p>More recently, I spent some painful years working on Microsoft&#x27;s WinFS, which had a ton of overlap with the principles here, and demonstrates just how hard it is to go from some nice principles that all seem like the Right Thing to an actual successful adopted implementation of the principles.