TagSpaces VS TMSU

https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces

Either way, will definitely be keeping an eye on your app, it seems ducking cool ;)

TagSpaces – Your versatile file organizer (version 50504): organize, tag and browse your files, photos and documents

Take a file. Add [awesome] to the name. There. You've tagged a file, and you can search for it with your desktop search / fzf / etc. Switch system, copy it anywhere, it works. You can do this by hand. Or, if you like clicks and drag-n-drop, use TagSpaces. Or, use tss.

The UNIX filesystem has traditionally been a graph for ever. I haven't looked at details for a couple of decades, but definitely all UNIX/POSIX/Linux filesystems operate on a graph model.

A distinction I used to make when I was teaching this stuff: on your filesystem tree, on Unix names (labels) are on the links (arrows), while on DOS/Windows names are on nodes (boxes).

If you want to explore a tag-based system, take a look at https://www.tagspaces.org/

The quickest workaround – and the most satisfactory one to boot – is to abandon Windows Media Player. Use a digital asset management app like TagSpaces.

TagSpaces: TagSpaces is a cross-platform tagging and organizing tool that can help you tag and manage your files and folders. It supports various file formats and can be used with local and cloud storage providers.

If the naming convention is different, or you'd prefer to go the tagging route, tagspaces may be your best bet. It can use standard tags in the file, or a sidecar file (file with the same name, but different extension next to the original file) to keep tags with the file.

Agreed. Why not use the filesystem as the database that it is? Modern filesystems support tags or extended attributes that could be used to implement tags. Failing that, just encode tags in the filename. Document management tools could then use the filesystem as the source of truth.

https://github.com/oniony/TMSU/wiki/FAQ#why-does-tmsu-not-au...

There are a couple very barebones wrappers around mv and rm, though they could be better (pass through arguments, etc.).

https://github.com/oniony/TMSU/wiki/Tricks-and-Tips#filesyst...

It may not be active, but: https://github.com/oniony/TMSU

Checkout https://github.com/oniony/TMSU if it may help. It does not have (bidirectional) links, only tags. Personally, I try to log things I create and search my log file.

Tons of programs and different DEs do this already. KDE does this with Dolphin, and check out TMSU. Or just do it yourself with extended attributes which is used by SELinux. It's great that you have this excitement, but Google before you write.

but I would first try https://github.com/oniony/TMSU -- especiall -- the readme says it allows a fuse style mounting of all tagged files, which is pretty cool for what you want, if it works without any gotchas!

TMSU (what some others suggested here) has a feature request for adding support for it...but not implemented yet it seems.