Library: A Collaborative Documentation Site

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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.

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.

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.

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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