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    [greg-dev] Rationale behind folders vs. categories

    Thanks for the answer. 
    
    I might add that while ticket #96 says that categories (or tags) would eliminate the need for multiple levels of folders, we've found that a hierarchal category tree is extremely powerful e.g. /News, /News/Local, /News/International, /News/International/Asia, etc. Not only does this let you refer to feeds in a specific folder (i.e. tag), you can also target multiple folders e.g. all feeds in /News or below. 
    
    More info here:
    
    	http://www.awasu.com/help/2.2/goto.php?url=Organizing%20your%20channels/02-ChannelFolders.html
    
    
    
    > Taka Muraoka wrote:
    >> I'm trying to figure out the best way to map the Awasu feed hierarchy to
    >> Gregarius' but I don't understand the reason for Gregarius having folders. 
    
    > Gregarius has folders because it had folders before categories. You can
    > read some of the design philosophy at the ticket for implementing
    > categories (http://svn.gregarius.net/trac/ticket/96) and the related
    > email thread on this list
    > (http://sinless.org/pipermail/gregarius-dev/2005-August/000202.html).
    
    > There is a half-written message to this list in my drafts folder from
    > nearly a month ago in which I suggest getting rid of both folders and
    > categories and only using tags. From a database point of view,
    > categories and tags are currently stored in the same table, so it would
    > only be necessary to convert currently existing folders to tags. Still,
    > even if we did decide to do this, I think it is big enough that it will
    > probably only appear in the release after 0.6.0.
    
    
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    Posted by Taka Muraoka [reply] at Mon Oct 30 10:33:09 CET 2006