On 03/23/2015 09:19 AM, Alexis wrote: > 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.
I fail to see why this is a problem. When you want to add the keyword reference, make a new folder. It's like making a new tag. > (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'.) So, you write a program to do this to make it less tedious. :-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller PGP Key: http://www.mattcaron.net/pgp_key.txt ~~ Matt Caron ~~ _______________________________________________ User mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
