I have used KDE for a few years now. Fundamentally, I don't mind the idea of a semantic desktop, but I don't want the indexer to be running unpredictably, and I

I have used KDE for a few years now. Fundamentally, I don't mind the idea of a semantic desktop, but I don't want the indexer to be running unpredictably, and I want to construct my own layers of meaning. The way I have addressed this is: I have a large blob of files; I've ordered them through typical directories. This is portable through Linux/Windows/OSX (some of these files have migrated from DOS). The directory structure and naming itself is my semantic categorization. It's a bit hinky in places, but it is (1) portable and (2) supported by any operating system work using on the desktop. At some point I will probably write an indexing system designed to handle tagging to deal with my files: however, at present, I get what I want when it comes to files.