I love tags and I hate folders, there I said it…
I noticed this when my bookmarks got a little out of control and I couldn’t find my bookmarks in all the folders I had created. Tags give you an option to put different tags on a file, bookmarks or anything else. Because of this searching a bookmark got a lot easier.
The thing is, that I’m not an average user. I noticed that 95% of all the business users love their folders: folders in their mailfile, folders on their harddrive, folders on their shared drive, they just love it!
I have been trying to explain tags with the Files section of Lotus Connections, the Files section of LotusLive and the Bookmarks section of Lotus Connections, but users just don’t seem to get used to it. They want some kind of hierarchy. I actually lost a LotusLive opportunity because users couldn’t store documents in a folder like matter.
And then Evernote enters. Evernote’s got hierarchical tags… brilliant! The beauty is that you can tag the way you’re used to (with al the advantages that comes with that) but you can represent the tags in a way similar to folders (if you like). So people at Lotus Connections, LotusLive etc. this is how tagging should be done, period.
