[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Finder aided this by being spacial. If you moved a window, then closed it, it stayed there the next time you opened it. If you moved a folder or file icon around it similarly stayed where you put it when you next opened up the window.

[tambourine_man]

Exactly. And the muscle memory you built over time made you open and click through folders extremely fast.

But I don’t know if it would scale to the terabytes of today.