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> especially with search getting so good

This is kind of the crux of it here. The reason this is a "Gen Z thing" is because you really couldn't get away with just using search until relatively recently.

I don't know of anyone my age (gen x/millennial) who even thinks to use Windows search because it was so tragically useless for so long.

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I'm a balding millennial and I've been "organizing" my files this way for a long time.

I find I remember things based on time, so one long list is ideal and nested folders is just hiding things from myself. I organize physical spaces this way too, or more accurately I find spaces organized this way easiest to use but it tends to bother anyone I live with so I don't do it as much as I'd like.

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