For me, of course.
It would be absurd for me to claim here that nobody uses folders anymore. Lots
and lots of people do. It's a good guess that they're still, by far, the
dominant filing metaphor. Over the years I've done more than my fair share
toward instilling that metaphor into the heads of many of the participants in
the courses I've taught. Again and again in these courses I've emphasized that
when saving something it's important to remember where we've saved it, and the
more "logical" the place, the better. In addition, I've noted here at
least once (the last time, I think, was a year
ago) that search becomes a logical replacement for filing when you've got
lots and lots of items that you've saved on your hard drive. Distressing as it
may be for me to admit this, I've glanced into many hard drives that held little
more than a few handfuls of files, and when that's the case, there's little chance
that anything is going to get lost or misplaced, and there's hardly any need to
adopt search as a more useful method of accessing those files.
I suppose that I should also admit that when I'm working on a web site for a course,
or for a particular project, I've learned to make a mental switch in my behavior
and rather automatically think in terms of folders
so that those sites can be built and/or altered in an orderly fashion.
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