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A Catalog of Your Files
- feelingextra 7y agoHi HN! I'm very excited to be able to present Catalog to you here. In fact one of the reinforcements for my vision came from a post I read here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858538 This app checks out almost all desirable features described in that post: - Free and open source - 100%-internet-independent. - It works on all the platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux - It uses SQLite as the store format of metadata, which makes it easy to read and modify programmatically. - A node can be either a filesystem resource: a file / folder, or a hierarchy building block: a category - All desirable metadata can be created by the user through categories - Search for files: by name OR by an ancestor category of the file You're welcome to leave questions here, and I will try to address them as best as I can.
- chrisMyzel 7y agoThanks for your contribution this looks interesting. Do you have any idea if one could tackle this on a OS level and e.g. have a catalogue filesystem on a sub-section of my hard drive?
- feelingextra 7y ago>Thanks for your contribution this looks interesting. Happy to hear you found it interesting! > Do you have any idea if one could tackle this on a OS level and e.g. have a catalogue filesystem on a sub-section of my hard drive? Unfortunately none of the available OSes support the many-to-many relationship between files and categories that I suggested (Symbolic links aren't sufficient[1]). My hypothesis is that any sufficient solution will be much more complex than what I'm doing with Catalog, which means a lot harder to maintain. [1] See my answer here: https://dev.to/amitnovick/comment/engj https://dev.to/amitnovick/comment/engj