There are multiple desktop search solutions, both supported and discontinued. While nice in theory, the problem is that anything that is not text requires lots

There are multiple desktop search solutions, both supported and discontinued. While nice in theory, the problem is that anything that is not text requires lots of metadata. The same can be said about tags, relational DBs that Microsoft dreamed about long ago, etc. - if you don't have enough metadata or they are of poor quality, your query has to be more precise, which is not very different from organizing your files manually and remembering the structure. - if you add/reformat metadata yourself or even just make sure it's consistent, you're probably micromanaging it too much, losing all the convenience. Now, some sort of ML system that automagically expands your stuff with relevant metadata could possibly work for this. Maybe. Existing AI assistants are still too dumb to be useful in most cases. Also the entire UI shouldn't rotate around one genius paradigm that works best for everyone. There's no such paradigm. Manual file/folder organization is perfectly good for most cases. Fuzzy search works best for textual data like notes or documents, or to discover the content you forgot you ever had. Tags work well for photos.