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Short, opinionated pieces on metadata, search, and the quiet end of manual tagging — written for the people who actually keep the library.

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Field notes May 26, 2026 6 min read

The quiet end of manual tagging.

For thirty years the deal was the same: if you wanted to find a file later, you had to describe it now. That deal is off.

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