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by gfaremil 5193 days ago
The main problem with Google Docs is that it is just too complicated - or better to say, has some rules which are quite unique.

For example, normal people get very confused that you can have multiple files with same name. Also the concept of collections is something quite broken since they represented as "folders": yes great on a paper but people assume if a document A in collection X is different document than the same document in collection Y.

I wonder how the above things will map to local filesystem without confusion.

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It would be nice to see a storage system demonstrating sets instead of hierarchical disjoint partitions, that I find terribly unfit for human activities since you can't really order things this way. After 30 years of Personal Computing with `folders` it will be confusing, but I'd be interested to see if people can re-adjust and adopt collections/sets.
The collections are similar to gmail labels.