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TazeTSchnitzel on July 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's with this anti-directory structure movement...

Google Docs used to do this. Folders weren't really folders, they were tags, and it was horribly confusing.

jonhendry on July 26, 2012 [–]

I could see that being confusing.

If something appears in two tag-folders, is it because it has both tags, or because it is two different versions or copies, with different tags?

TazeTSchnitzel on July 26, 2012 | [–]

Exactly.

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