In 1973, Xerox came up with a metaphor to help us understand computers. It wasn’t a great metaphor, but we’ve stuck with it. Isn’t it about time we changed?
At work Teams and SharePoint and whatever else there is have all been rolled out with zero training. Everyone is just supposed to start using it intuitively. But my folder system on my area of the old shared drive folder is still my bedrock for retaining important stuff.
Totally. That was my point about the exchange with Tom Zingale - it needs someone to at least say "do it this way" to stop you doing it the way you have always done it. But imagine if you could treat folder names as metadata - you could effortlessly switch between a traditional folder structure and a spreadsheet. Such an easy implementation.
At work Teams and SharePoint and whatever else there is have all been rolled out with zero training. Everyone is just supposed to start using it intuitively. But my folder system on my area of the old shared drive folder is still my bedrock for retaining important stuff.
Totally. That was my point about the exchange with Tom Zingale - it needs someone to at least say "do it this way" to stop you doing it the way you have always done it. But imagine if you could treat folder names as metadata - you could effortlessly switch between a traditional folder structure and a spreadsheet. Such an easy implementation.