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From: Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mit...>
Subject: acme: some thoughts about design
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 02:51:07 +0200

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:59:21 +0200, boyd, rounin wrote:
> > The problem is, if I want to associate a file with, say, "computers" and
> > "vaccuum cleaners", how do I layout my filesystem?
> 
> organisation?  smarts?
> 
> reverting to a serach engine is excessive.

Maybe not a search engine, but even something like being able to "tag" a
document with various categories etc. and then being able to view files
matching a combination of tags would be more powerful than "just" an
HFS.

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