Matthew Caron <[email protected]> writes:
(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.
Creating a new folder isn't the 'problem'. The 'problem' is that i
don't always anticipate the keyword which, in future, i'll have in
mind when i want to find the file. So i might initially associate
the keywords X and Y with a file, and create folders for those
keywords; but in the future, i'll be looking for the file via
keyword Z, for which i haven't yet created a folder, and so which
can't be used as a method of locating the file.
However, i put the word 'problem' in quotes because, of course,
this issue applies to tags as well! So i acknowledge that tags
here don't get me anything that folders+symlinks don't. It seems
to me that what i need for this situation is the ability to do
full-document searches - which obviously i can do from the command
line with some form of grep-like tool, but which i think would be
nice to have in the form of an interface within the oC GUI itself.
(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. :-)
Yes, i could do that. i'm a developer and sysadmin, and i've
written and maintained programs - of various sizes - in Perl5,
JavaScript, Emacs Lisp and shell to add functionality to software
that was 'missing' in terms of the preferred workflows of both
myself and others. But doing so, and maintaining them, takes time
and resources away from doing other things, and so if it's
possible for the developers/maintainers of a system to create the
functionality i'd like, that's my preferred option.
In this particular context, if tag-like functionality was added to
the oC frontend, which used folders+symlinks as the backend, that
would be fine with me. (Although i'm only familiar with *n*x-style
platforms, and don't know how practical that approach is on
e.g. Win systems.) My primary interest is in having a tag-based
frontend, as i've found tags simply too useful to not care whether
they're available.
Alexis.
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