[throwaway211]

I worked in an organisation that replaced all directory structures including network drives and folders with what a friend called 'a swimming pool' where all documents were security/sharing the classified then tagged. 2002ish.

Finding a document again was entirely down to search: title, author, date, meta data, full text.

I loved it. I was in a minority. I loved Gmail's search.

[al_borland]

With documents I would me more OK with it, as I would be in control of what I’m naming my documents. In Gmail, if I wanted to me sure I could find something again, I would need to tag everything that hits my inbox, and make a mess of my tags.