Matthew Caron <[email protected]> writes:
> On 03/22/2015 10:23 PM, Alexis wrote:
>
>> Artificial example: say there's a paper "The Philosophy of Mathematics".
>> Initially i might have put it under a 'philosophy' folder, because it
>> was part of a range of philosophy reading i was doing at the time. Now,
>> however, my focus has moved to foundations of maths, and so i might
>> expect to find it under a 'mathematics' folder.
>
> Aside: This is why symlinks are awesome sauce. :-) Put it in one folder,
> link to it from others.
Sure; i use symlinks myself for things like filing something in one
folder, then adding a symlink to it from another folder
'Documents/current'. However, the limitations i've found with this
approach are:
(a) i don't always know ahead of time that i might in future want to
reference a file by a particular keyword for which i can create a
folder and put a symlink in it.
(b) This becomes increasingly unwieldy as the number of keywords/tags
associated with a given file increases. With tags (e.g. like in
Calibre), i simply add a list of tags to a file, and that's
that. But let's say i have four tags, for each of which i want to
have a folder. Then the file 'officially' lives in one folder, but i
have to manually create symlinks to that file in each of the other
three folders. (This is not purely theoretical; i have a document
indexed by Calibre with the four tags 'behaviour', 'economics',
'gametheory', 'sociology'.)
Alexis.
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