With the vast flow of content including email, web page visits, meetings, etc. and the fact that we have powerful ways to search for content, one might conclude that no organization is needed. In effect, everything can be in one, large folder and items are retrieved by their content with no attention to “location”. This is the exact opposite of how the project started five years ago – over 30,000 items were named and placed in about 1500 file folders, and retrieval was principally by folder location and file name. The classifying principle we used in.
