Search Folders, Smart Lists, & Tags

"[...]“information about information” is guaranteed to play an increasingly important role in how we manage our home lives and jobs. For evidence, we need only to look at the proliferation of metadata-based organizational constructs within Desktop and Web-based applications. Search Folders, Smart Playlists, Virtual Folders, and Tags all group objects based on shared metadata and dynamically update their contents for efficient information retrieval through common attributes. In other words, files attributes in these instances “replace” typical hierarchical organization systems.[...]" (Functioning Form)

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information design || navigation systems||findability ||