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[Jan-Christoph Borchardt <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 April 2010 06:19, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> how about tagging files and folders in nautilus?
> i wouldn't have to move them around much anymore, if i could attach
> tags to them.
>
> imagine you don't have to move your files around physically anymore,
> you just navigate them via tagging..
>
> on a fs level that would be horrendous i suppose, perhaps somebody
> already thought of something of the sort with some type of
> meta-filesystem running within a file management service ?
>
> i'm just thinking aloud...

Your FAST approach would make tagging (as well as folders) somehow obsolete. ;)

Nice idea anyway, and thanks all for the links to Tagger. I can
imagine this as a good alternative for non-searchers.