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I don't know how people deal with tags. It adds so much friction to me. Naming tags, deciding what rules this tag is supposed to have, deciding what stuff is tagged. I tried the firm approach of being extremely discrete with tags and it took a lot of effort, and I've tried the loose approach of tagging things if they are even slightly related which imo defeated the whole purpose of organizing things to make it easy to find them later if a lot of tangentially related things share the same tags.

Folders seem a lot more straightforward for me at least, and if I need something in two places at once, there's always ln -s



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