Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)
>But fundamentally, there is a mismatch between the narrowness of hierarchies and the rich structure of human knowledge, and the proposed system will not presuppose the features of HFSes.<p>This hits the nail on the head !<p>All the fileSystems I had to work with are fine as engineering tools. By that I mean using them as an engineer works just fine, their own implementation is off topic.<p>As a user though.<p>What the hell !<p>I don't want to go to c:/users/me/documents/talks/stockholm2018/draft3<p>I just want to open my document !<p>I really hope that someday we expose a document based filesystem to the user.<p>The underlying implementation does not matter, we can always add a layer on top of the hierarchical file system.<p>I just want to be able to display :<p>-all the games installed on my system .<p>-all the pictures<p>-all of my text documents .<p>-all of my pictures of Paris<p>etc