Thread: Content Folders! WE NEED FOLDERS!
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Old 03-06-2009, 12:17 PM   #109
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
So, you say what makes tags more usable is what's bad about tags. That's the exact problem with folder. You have to define a taxonomy and stick with it. What if an ebook would fit in two places in your folder scheme?

EVERY tags is a main category. VERY tag is a sub-category. That's the whole point. You can choose at any time where you want to start. Today you might want to start at a genre tag, tomorrow you might want to start at UNREAD tag, the next day you might want to start with the Publisher tag.
My point was that ontological there are some things you can represent with folders that you cannot represent with tags without adding the concept of levels to the tag and make sure that every application respect these levels. I wanted to point out that since somebody made the erroneous claim that you using tags could represent everything you can represent with flat tags.
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