> The article has a whole section illustrating why both hardlinks and softlinks won't work in the general case. Yes, that's the part I quoted. > Have you trie

> The article has a whole section illustrating why both hardlinks and softlinks won't work in the general case. Yes, that's the part I quoted. > Have you tried managing a collection of shortcuts? No, tagging is the bottleneck for me, which is why I don't think it will ever be useful. > How do you deal with recategorization, removing files, renaming files, moving files to different storage devices, etc.? Aside from moving to different storage device, you can make a minimum viable product with a few shell scripts, one to tag a file, one to untag, one to search by tag(s), one to listen for for events (move, delete). For bonus points you could do some auto tagging from meta data. A working implementation (even with limitations) would be a lot more convincing than all this theory.