<story><title>Don’t Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (2005)</title><url>https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/2031</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jen729w</author><text>I do this &lt;i&gt;rigorously&lt;/i&gt; with tremendous success. I can find anything, instantly. Yes, it takes a little work up front. For me, the payback is obvious and extreme.&lt;p&gt;I have to get round to finishing my site so please excuse its current incompletion, but hey, if you&amp;#x27;re interested: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;johnnydecimal.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;johnnydecimal.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I use this system at work and I have otherwise very competent Project Managers stare at me like I&amp;#x27;m some sort of wizard when I navigate to the right folder, the first time, every time, and find exactly what I&amp;#x27;m looking for. Email, our shared drive, SharePoint - I use it everywhere. I would be a mess without it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Don’t Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (2005)</title><url>https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/2031</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>If you think about it, folders are really like limited tags where the only relationship you are allowed is &amp;quot;and then&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to see a system that would present a tag set in the appearance of folders for all &amp;quot;and then&amp;quot; relationships but then let you mix in things like &amp;quot;and also&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;or&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;but not&amp;quot;.</text></comment>