Indeed, you either tag from the get-go expecting to have many, many files in the future, or you give up on ever contextually managing those files outside of large containers.
How do you tag a file when you can't find it to tag it, and when do you tag a file that you've forgotten about?
Ultimately, someone comes up with yet another abstraction that makes it just a little bit easier... Now, if we made every application those wrote a file also tag it meaningfully, and then had meaningful translations, and.. oh geez. I normally just delete everything and start over when I realize I have no idea what 90% of the files I just scanned were for. If they were truly important, I would've known what they were. I guess the people with ten bazillion files on a PC are just data hoarders. "But, but, but I'm going to need that report one day!" (Bet you would tag it, now wouldn't you?)
How do you tag a file when you can't find it to tag it, and when do you tag a file that you've forgotten about?
Ultimately, someone comes up with yet another abstraction that makes it just a little bit easier... Now, if we made every application those wrote a file also tag it meaningfully, and then had meaningful translations, and.. oh geez. I normally just delete everything and start over when I realize I have no idea what 90% of the files I just scanned were for. If they were truly important, I would've known what they were. I guess the people with ten bazillion files on a PC are just data hoarders. "But, but, but I'm going to need that report one day!" (Bet you would tag it, now wouldn't you?)