A Catalog of Your Files
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I'm very excited to be able to present Catalog to you here. In fact one of the reinforcements for my vision came from a post I read here a few months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858538
This app checks out almost all desirable features described in that post:
- Free and open source
- 100%-internet-independent.
- It works on all the platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux
- It uses SQLite as the store format of metadata, which makes it easy to read and modify programmatically.
- A node can be either a filesystem resource: a file / folder, or a hierarchy building block: a category
- All desirable metadata can be created by the user through categories
- Search for files: by name OR by an ancestor category of the file
Happy to hear you found it interesting!
> Do you have any idea if one could tackle this on a OS level and e.g. have a catalogue filesystem on a sub-section of my hard drive?
Unfortunately none of the available OSes support the many-to-many relationship between files and categories that I suggested (Symbolic links aren't sufficient[1]).
My hypothesis is that any sufficient solution will be much more complex than what I'm doing with Catalog, which means a lot harder to maintain.
[1] See my answer here: https://dev.to/amitnovick/comment/engj