Have Categories...will travel....
It seems I've finally ended up with a set of categories that will work for me. I say it seems because I've been at this specific point a few times today. Usually it's the point at which the gods of programming decide I've been having it to easy and a good smiting is in order. I'm feeling a bit more confident this time though as instead of the initial 3600 categories I now have a more useable 680. This is still quite a large set and brings me to the point of this rant.
It would seem that smaller is often better (though that's not always the case I'm told). When dealing with options that a user will have to choose from keeping the list as small as possible definately seems to have advantages. Inundating a user with a billion different categories (although thorough I'm sure) to choose from when adding a document will in the end in-evitabley end up as useless. If it's too much work to find the right place or option the user will choose whatever is easiest and not in fact what's actually appropriate (or rarely anyway).
Not exacly words to live by or anything phenomenally earth shattering (it's not even an epiphany) but something to remember.
2:14:27 AM 
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