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Library: A Collaborative Documentation Site (nytimes.com)
42 points by danso on March 23, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


I can't quite tell what this adds on top of vanilla Google Drive.

> Documents in Library are searchable, taggable, and can be grouped by desks or categories.

Drive documents are already searchable, taggable, and can be grouped by folders.


Bare Drive makes a bad Wiki because there’s too much friction to freely browse and discover information in Drive. Linking between documents in Drive is also super annoying compared to more wiki-like systems like Notion or Quip, which have autocomplete, or even MediaWiki, where page URLs are predictable.


How does Google Drive support tags? All I can find is adding files/folders to additional folders through the non-discoverable Ctrl-Z shortcut, which seems like a very roundabout way of implementing tags.

IMHO it really needs labels as first-class citizens, similar to GMail.


Paywalled


This is a Medium blog on an nytimes.com subdomain, so perhaps you've hit an account or browser specific limit. I'm not getting a paywall in or out of private browsing mode, you may be able to get around it easily.


Blog posts with a little star are paid.


Today, same browser, no wall. Impossible to tell what Medium is up to.




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