The idea of a meta tag driven file system is something that crosses my mind often. It's not that I hate the folder paradigm. I love folders. But being able to tag files and find them or organize them not only by folder but by meta information would be great for an obsessive notetaker like myself. I am constantly searching through my files and notes. While the indexer in Windows (Where I do most of my notetaking - for work) works, it is often difficult to find what I need in my local sea of information.
On my work machine it would have to be something built into the OS since I am not able to sinoly download what I want and run it. On my home machines I could learn to utilize TagFS etc but I've never toyed with non-standard file systems so there will be a learning curve.
It seems interesting that while apparently you *can* add meta info to files in Windows etc, such functionality isn't the norm for file management. It would give the user a powerful level of control and greatly improve file management.
I may have to toy with TagFS and others, see if it gets me what I need, at least on my home boxes.
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