I’ve been thinking a little more on why I’m still attached to the folder view option, and I wonder if it comes down to being somewhat of a visual learner. I actually still keep most of my large CD collection in a tall chest of drawers in our living room. These days I don’t actually pull them out to play very often, but there are times where I’m trying to locate a specific disc that I can’t remember any title or artist information for, but I can literally see in my mind that it was in the 3rd drawer down, and had a red cover with a dog on it. Crazy, right?
I’m the same way with books, and I would never think of replacing my bookshelves with a searchable card catalog. Even with the ability to add every possible micro-genre tag to my files, if I can’t actually see their organizational structure, I’m limited to my own memory of how I might have grouped them.
I’m perfectly prepared to acknowledge I’m probably very much an outlier in this particular bell curve.