I don't think tags are the ultimate solution, and in the end delicious is still only a flat list, as are the bookmarks in the browser. Any better ideas for remembering things?
On the one hand I have the theory that all attempts at organization are doomed (ie trying to define useful categories and hierarchies), and ultimately one should just use a search engine to retrieve information. On the other hand I find that I don't enjoy using iTunes very much, because it is hard to accidentally rediscover music I haven't listened to in a long time. In iTunes I guess the normal way to select the music to listen to is to search for it. Before iTunes I would browse my file system and accidentally find lots of music I had forgotten about.
On the one hand I have the theory that all attempts at organization are doomed (ie trying to define useful categories and hierarchies), and ultimately one should just use a search engine to retrieve information. On the other hand I find that I don't enjoy using iTunes very much, because it is hard to accidentally rediscover music I haven't listened to in a long time. In iTunes I guess the normal way to select the music to listen to is to search for it. Before iTunes I would browse my file system and accidentally find lots of music I had forgotten about.