Uwe Brauer writes: > Well, since I tend to forget things, and it is very time consuming to > open files and see what is the basic content, I thought of adding to > each directory (with subdirectories if necessary) I find useful a > README.org file, that contains a > > 1. Tree of the directory and > > 1. a short description of the content of each file > > I use bookmarks.el but that is an entirely different workflow, since I > there only save files that I find useful, but sometimes I stumble across > a directory I created some time ago and don't recall the content of > each file.
I see. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but I often use filetags.el (https://github.com/DerBeutlin/filetags.el) which allows you to add tags to files and directories in Dired. You can add multiple tags, remove or update them. It's not a panacea, because the tags are added directly to the file/directory name (as part of the name, I mean), but in general it's enough for me when I want to have a file tagged in some way. I can then locate this files by tag names using helm-locate. Perhaps a kind of ''dired-org-view'' could be interesting, to display a dired directory as an Org buffer, where you could add (persistent) TODO states, notes and tags. Well, it's a sudden occurrence, I don't know to what extent it is feasible, but in case someone feels inspired... :-) You also have this package (haven't tried it): https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-diredc Adds a lot of functionality to Dired, including file preview. Best regards, Juan Manuel
