🌲 Yet Another Hot Take on “Folders vs Tags”

I like folders due to their cross compatibility, future proofing, interoperability, flexibility, focus, clarity, automation management &etc.

Folders are controversial in personal knowledge management circles. The common refrain I see is “why do you need folders if you have tags? It’s 2021!” For me, the answer is about 4,000 words but pretty simple:

Folders have good backwards compatibility

Most software I use wasn’t created in the 2020s, and interfaces pretty poorly with a tag-based system of …