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Modern OSes can search within files for text, which mostly obviates using the filename for keywords.
by queuebert 3y ago
Modern OSes can search within files for text, which mostly obviates using the filename for keywords.
- nomel 3y agoThey can also search images for subjects, location, etc. Still, it would have been nice if a standard metadata format could be included with each file, in a way that survives file transfers.
- xp84 3y agoI bet there are some that do a good job, but my "modern" OS (hint: it's the one that probably has 10x the engineers working on 'cool' UI animations than on the search backend) is absolute trash at relevance when searching contents. Not to mention slow. A spotlight search for Chevy I get every document on my system that ever mentioned Chevy in random order. Maybe 1000 documents (or 10,000 if it helpfully decides to pull in e-mail, and thus picks up 9,000 marketing emails). If I search names for Chevy I am going to find the file I mentioned and any others where a human decided the file was about a Chevy. Same for Jane. If that's my partner, adding her name will just pull in every document that's ever mentioned her, like every tax form ever. But files named after her is a much smaller set.