Files seem like a pretty natural abstraction: a blob of data, an array of bytes that forms a self-contained unit. There's something that seems natural about that. You can attach all kinds of meta-data to files, but then you run into the issue of which types of tags people care about or are supported by different OSes, etc. The idea of hierarchically separating files, and giving them names, and also types in the form of the extension, seems like a pretty good system to me.
In terms of tagging files, I feel like, with good machine learning, that can be done automatically. No human effort required. You could just search all your files with a vague natural language description of what you're looking for. Kind of like tagging webpages... Does a good search engine even care about your tags?
In terms of tagging files, I feel like, with good machine learning, that can be done automatically. No human effort required. You could just search all your files with a vague natural language description of what you're looking for. Kind of like tagging webpages... Does a good search engine even care about your tags?