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- It seems like this has few benefits over using a directory for the bundle and puting your files in there, no? What am i missing?by aerzen
- The links are much more durable and survive a rename or move. Plus you can assign random files to different binders (e.g. photo album), add some additional info in a sidecar and use all the info like a database of files (with my tool grubber).by rhsev
- What are the use cases for this? On other words, what problem(s) does it aim to solve?by rippeltippel
- by smartmic
- I am the author of fileregister. fileregister is a cross-machine tagging system (macOS, potentially Linux). fileregister keeps durable ids (bookmarks) for a file in a plain-text JSONL-file. Now you can move the files around or rename them and the link will not break. On top of that you have markdown sidecars where you can store additional data to any file. This can serve as a binder of files which belong together. This can be used to build photoalbums or collect files which are spread over the filesystem. The essential metadata is saved in the attributes of the files so you can search for the file with Spotlight. The macOS-filesystem-anchor can be replaced by a Linux-filesystem-anchor. As the yellow book of the files is stored in a JSONL-file it can be marshalled (packed) and unmarshalled (unpacked) on another machine and the links remain intact.by rhsev
- I wanted something like this for a org, but I wanted it to be integrated with the OS/file browser. Windows 7 had some tagging, which is the flat structure you need for that, but never got the buy in from management to use it (they preferred a strict tree folder structure), so this seems cool but I want to see it integrated into something else, maybe a library?by braiamp