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Seems like the unix filesystem could provide a nice way to organize files with symbolic links perhaps even including metadata.

Structure

Keep all the files in a directory called STORAGE. Create topic directories such as:

  • Articles
  • Books
  • MyContent
  • PythonCode
  • HTML5
  • FORTRAN
  • Ccode
  • Demos
  • Combustion
  • Networks
  • NeuronStuff

Then add files to the topics using symbolic links:

STORAGE/ $ ln -s ~/STORAGE/Flaming Combustion
STORAGE/ $ ln -s ~/STORAGE/Flaming MyContent
STORAGE/ $ ln -s ~/STORAGE/Flaming FORTRAN

Now the Flaming files are available in 3 easier to find places.

Questions

Q: How does this comapre in performance and ease to keeping all files in a single directory and using find, locate and grep to find them?

MetaData

Could a specific file be kept in each directory of STORAGE with metadata on the files in that directory? I think of the metadata as being created by the user. But I supose it could be automated too. Comments on pdf paper, citations related to the material, webpages retrived from, webpages with related work or images/video. Sort of a oneNote approach to collecting comments on the material in that directory.