Comment by forbiddenvoid
16 hours ago
I know that it's just a super common distinction between pilers and filers, but I really struggle to comprehend the usefulness of just "dumping everything" in one place and hoping that search will sort it out.
At a certain threshold, doesn't it just become impossible to remember what you do or don't have in that pile?
When search fails, is it because it isn't there? Or is it because the search just didn't find it?
Yeah that's why the search needs to be really good.
I just don't have the mindset for painstakingly categorising stuff so that'll never happen. When I was younger I sometimes tried to do that but I always ended up giving up on it and just having a pile of outdated stuff.