Camlistore (http://camlistore.org/ http://camlistore.org/) is kind of an answer to that: just stuff all your data into it, and get back to it by searching. You

Camlistore (http://camlistore.org/ http://camlistore.org/) is kind of an answer to that: just stuff all your data into it, and get back to it by searching. You shouldn't have to care about where to put what: what you have is Photos, Music, PDFs, and all are accessible through a search box. The content can also be synced between your computers, and there's some work started to sync with the phone (as far as I know, there's a photo uploader for Android at the moment). The project is still in its infancy (as in "not widespread yet") but it's advancing at a good pace. For the moment the focus is put on how to run it in the cloud, so that people can install a simple instance somewhere for them, for their family or even for business (so you can run a public instance). But if you want to see it for yourself, you'll see that a good amount of work has been put on images (the golang's stdlib for image was improved from camlistore work) as you can see in the videos.