On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:54:27PM +0200, Cipher van Byte wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned the structure of directories and links (hard or
> symbolic) were invented to eliminate the _need_ of having such searching
> engines.
>
> I've got every file in directory that it belongs to, and I do have "tmp"
> directory where I put files that does not belong to any category on my ~/ .
Then there are files which have multiple uses. Suppose I get an email
which has pictures from someone's vacation, including parks, famous
buildings, Aunt Josephine's garden ... how do I file that?
It is easy to think of any number of files which have multiple uses.
I shoot black powder guns. When I try a different powder load, or
different size ball, or different patch or lube or primer, and write
everything up for later comparison, how do I file that data? I don't
think 1861_Springfield_Goex_2f_CCI_winged_wonderlube_577_45gr even
begins to cover all the bases. I suppose I could have one file named
1861_Springfield and make links to it such as Goex_2f, CCI_winged, and
so on, but that assumes I know ahead of time exactly how I will want
to find it later. What if I decide that the time of day was useful,
or the location, or the friends I was with?
The poitn is to index it by EVERYTHING in the contents so you can find
things later you would never have thought of. What if I want to find
every file which mentions a friend and did not create a link to him
when I created the file? How many frigging links am I supposed to
create anyway? What if I want to find every file which mentions
Massachusetts or thunderstorms or potted petunias?
I have tried several desktop search engines and been disappointed with
them all. I would love to find a good one.
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