Yeah, I think filesystems are (inevitably?) converging towards search or some sort of computer-aided file organization. I've been meditating a lot on this rece

Yeah, I think filesystems are (inevitably?) converging towards search or some sort of computer-aided file organization. I've been meditating a lot on this recently. The way I organize files is in a current directory for the last N weeks, or for the duration of the last project or similar. I then batch process it every so often and delete the files that need deleting and squirrel away the ones that may need referencing later in an actual hierarchical file system. This way a small number of recent files are readily available, and I have some hope of finding historical files later (at the cost of some upfront work). Anyway, it occurred to me that I really don't enjoy doing this, that my time is better spent doing other things and that computers are supposed to be good at boring work like this anyway. Ideally, the computer should be able to help me "get the files I want" either by placing the files somewhere where I can later find them myself or by searching and providing them for me when I ask nicely. All this leads me to wonder: are there any tag-based filesystems out there? EDIT: answering my own question after a google search: http://code.google.com/p/xtagfs/ http://code.google.com/p/xtagfs/