TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
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Re: TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
#2It seems to me most of this stuff can be done via unix command line if you are so adept... without this app.
Re: TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
#3It seems to me most of this stuff can be done via unix command line if you are so adept... without this app.
What existing tools can automatically generate a virtual filesystem based on tag metadata?
Re: TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
#4I'm actually not frustrated with the hierarchical nature of filesystems. I'm most frustrated with the state of filesystem search these days. I don't want to tag and curate my files. I want to search them.
I've strung together something using bleve full-text search and some OCR libs to scratch my particular itch but it still doesn't quite get all there.
Re: TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
#5It seems to me most of this stuff can be done via unix command line if you are so adept... without this app.
What existing tools can automatically generate a virtual filesystem based on tag metadata?
no not virtual filesystem, i meant querying your files by date or tag... find, grep and something to print the tag would do the job.
Re: TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
#6It seems to me most of this stuff can be done via unix command line if you are so adept... without this app.
You can have some poor's man tag management with subdir-per-tag containing softlinks, but it gets unwieldly pretty quick.
Re: TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
What existing tools can automatically generate a virtual filesystem based on tag metadata?
no not virtual filesystem, i meant querying your files by date or tag... find, grep and something to print the tag would do the job.
But where is the metadata? With OP's tool, it is in some db, so you don't have to tamper with your files or their name.
Re: TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
#8This.
Hallelujah.
Down with the hierarchical paradigm.
Down with Reductionism.
Long live Systems thinking.
Long live Connectionism.
Not everything has one canonical representation. Not everything can be clearly represented from one view point.
The view needs to be determined by the viewer. It's just the way the world is.
Trying to smash everything into one and only view point is frustrating and totally pointless. Unless of course you fetishize order, tidiness and control.
But then the joke's on you.
Re: TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
#9It seems to me most of this stuff can be done via unix command line if you are so adept... without this app.
What existing tools can automatically generate a virtual filesystem based on tag metadata?
Tagging can be done with symlinks if you just want to stick to using the filesystem.
Re: TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
no not virtual filesystem, i meant querying your files by date or tag... find, grep and something to print the tag would do the job.
But where is the metadata? With OP's tool, it is in some db, so you don't have to tamper with your files or their name.
well with mp3 files the meta data is in the file, it's called an id3 tag. for other files, depends on the file.