Nemo filemanager
I’ve been searching for a new approach to filemanagement for a while now. In my search I ran into Nemo. That’s a pretty interesting idea. It organizes your files grouped by date. I don’t know if that works, you loose the possibility to make your own structure. I like to keep a project oriented structure in my files, I’m not sure the date thing would work.
But at least somebody is thinking of other solutions then the directory thing which sucks for years already. My project directory contains about 8500 files, and that’s the from the last two years only. How am I going to find anything in that? The Google approach is the best so far: just search. Sadly there are very little desktop client that really enable this. Google Desktop is too clumsy and takes too much CPU. Deskbar is rubbish, at least I can never find what I’m looking for. Tracker… Nice try.
Are there any alternatives? Tagging sounds promising. If I can tag my documents, preferably in a visual way (drag some existing tags to it, or something). Then some tag cloud to browse… Maybe it would work.
Then I was playing with Cairo Dock. It took me hours to get it to do what I want. The good thing is: it can do what I want, the bad thing is: it takes a lot of time. The config gui is absolute crap. Anyway, it does work, that’s cool!
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