Comment by octorian
4 years 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)
You 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 ..