Comment by ryloric

I'd like to see a different abstraction and UX for "files", something that feels like a database but with looser usage patterns from a user's perspective, more intuitive to use and reason about.

I don't want to remember paths and folders and all that crap. I don't want to depend on my discipline to organize and I'm willing to trade some flexibility in return.

There's some alternatives like tags, but none of them feel natural and require setup. I feel services like dropbox had a real chance to try something, but the best they came up with was showing me "recent documents" for a homepage, wasted opportunity if you ask me.