Comment Re:Labels or Folders? (Score 1) 440
Let's think about the UNIX filesystem comparison :
it does everything :
- a file can exist (hard link) in more than one directory
- you can create a hierarchy of directories
so, to transpose the analogy to emails :
- messages are inodes
- tags/folders are directories
The only thing that's missing from Gmail is the ability to apply labels to labels and you can have the best of both worlds :-)
Being able to label a label is the same thing as creating a subdirectory in a UNIX fs
it does everything :
- a file can exist (hard link) in more than one directory
- you can create a hierarchy of directories
so, to transpose the analogy to emails :
- messages are inodes
- tags/folders are directories
The only thing that's missing from Gmail is the ability to apply labels to labels and you can have the best of both worlds
Being able to label a label is the same thing as creating a subdirectory in a UNIX fs
