If I hadn't done so already.

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I suppose that it would be more accurate to write that my hard drive was simply a mess waiting for an organizing principle to present itself. Yes, I was still placing files into folders, but (haven't I noted this already?) these were highly arbitrary. And the same was even truer about my bookmarks which were divided into over 100 folders, some of which had tens of bookmarks themselves. The sub-folders in those that had them were, on the whole, organized relatively hierarchically (some folders had many, many had none), but the main folders didn't follow any particular pattern. Some folders were defined by content, some by date, some by whom they were for, or for a particular use. Though I was still bookmarking, I'd long before reached the conclusion that it was easier to find something I'd once bookmarked by running a Google search for it than by actually trying to find where it might be logically nested in those folders.

But it wasn't tagging that came along to save me. Instead, it was Google desktop search. After all, when any word in any document could become a keyword, did it really matter what words I used to "describe" a particular document? And since I didn't have a method for tagging items on my hard drive, an effective keyword search made more sense anyway.

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