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> The no-filesystem movement Is that the movement to store all your data as an amorphous pile of crap, and then provide easy-to-use search tools to actually fi
by octorian 5y ago
> The no-filesystem movement
Is that the movement to store all your data as an amorphous pile of crap, and then provide easy-to-use search tools to actually find the content you're looking for?
On one hand, I really like the search tools that come from this. But I still like to actually organize my data, so I can browse it if I want to. Also, these search tools seem to only work well enough on macOS and fall flat on their face in Windows. (and no idea where Linux falls on this)
- boffinAudio 5y agoYou had me at "amorphous pile of crap", but lost me at 'actually find the content'... ;) Meanwhile, I've got a single directory full of PDF files (over 60,000+) which I routinely "ls -alF | grep <search term>" for, and I've also got some PyPDF scripts for doing deeper content search - but yet I yearn for a way to automatically parse the filenames and organize things categorically into a folder tree resembling a word cloud, symbolic links and all .. one of these days ..