• ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    The directory remark is unrelated to the Canvas one. I guess they didn’t have the app set up on the phone in that case.

    Anyway, have directories been replaced? I’m having a hard time remembering any filesystem without directories. And we don’t need to put AI in every fucking thing.

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      6 months ago

      Gmail was the first to get mainstream support for a directory-less method of organizing.

      Music, photo, video apps have no need for directories. Many phone apps have no need in general.

      Even your documents folders. It’s easier for me to use search than to drill down through folders.

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        6 months ago

        I actually use tags as directories in GMail. I can’t find shit otherwise. (Tangent: just how shitty is the search in Outlook? I can never find anything unless labeled in advance.)

        I agree for the apps. But then they shouldn’t deal with files anyway. They should just access certain directories as permitted by the system, and those should also be exposed to the user.

        Hard disagree on the documents (or anything else, really). One ends up emulating folders using tags anyway, and there’s no real way of doing it in a platform-independent way. Also, searching can be very annoying in many cases. For my research, I end up working with the same files for a few weeks straight. It’s much better if they’re in a folder, rather than searching them every time.

        You do you, though.

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          6 months ago

          Google docs doesn’t really use folders, and neither does o365. Especially when in a mobile device. Sure you can use folders but it’s limiting compared to tags.