I don’t know if this is how I want the next generation of file interactivity to work.
I think I’d like a future where most files are “tagged” instead of put in a specific path, then files are displayed using “virtual folders” which are really just filters, so a file can appear in multiple locations.
For example, the same file should appear under /invoices/all and clients/jim/invoices .
Should we bolt an AI to our existing file system that is doomed to always unorganise itself? Mmm, not sure. Plain text search of file systems (on Mac/Win) is already ubiquitously slow for example, and I don’t trust it to make up for the shortcoming of a 1:1 relationship between file and path.
I think I’d like a future where most files are “tagged” instead of put in a specific path, then files are displayed using “virtual folders” which are really just filters, so a file can appear in multiple locations.
For example, the same file should appear under /invoices/all and clients/jim/invoices .
Should we bolt an AI to our existing file system that is doomed to always unorganise itself? Mmm, not sure. Plain text search of file systems (on Mac/Win) is already ubiquitously slow for example, and I don’t trust it to make up for the shortcoming of a 1:1 relationship between file and path.
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