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0 pointsal_borland1y ago0 comments

Not to mention that Gmail was built around the idea that search would be all a user needed from day one. 1Gb of storage, and archive everything in on big archive, because a simple search will get you where you need to be.

I always found this bad, because I can’t control when people title an email or put in the content. People who use really informal and non-descriptive email subjects drive me nuts. “Here you go”, “that thing you were asking about”, “important”… these are terrible email subjects and once they drift away from the top of the inbox they will be gone forever.

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throwaway2111y ago

I worked in an organisation that replaced all directory structures including network drives and folders with what a friend called 'a swimming pool' where all documents were security/sharing the classified then tagged. 2002ish.

Finding a document again was entirely down to search: title, author, date, meta data, full text.

I loved it. I was in a minority. I loved Gmail's search.

al_borlandOP1y ago

With documents I would me more OK with it, as I would be in control of what I’m naming my documents. In Gmail, if I wanted to me sure I could find something again, I would need to tag everything that hits my inbox, and make a mess of my tags.

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