xattrs are great, and would the obvious solution for tags/metadata on Linux too, if the syscall API didn't delete them at every opportunity; programs must be ex

xattrs are great, and would the obvious solution for tags/metadata on Linux too, if the syscall API didn't delete them at every opportunity; programs must be explicitly told not to do that. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Extended_attributes https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Extended_attributes That being said, it'd be cool to see a port of that CLI to Linux using user.xdg.tags. You can avoid deleting them if you're careful.