Life & fun · November 30, 2020
Reimagine the File System
Reimagine the File System launched on November 30, 2020 with 49 votes, #791 of 3,461 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
Reimagine the File System is a tool for interacting with computer files and directories in new ways. Designed for developers and power users who want to move beyond traditional file management approaches, it offers alternative methods for organizing and accessing data. The project emphasizes rethinking how users work with their file systems through experimental or unconventional techniques.
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From the sources
Supertag is a tag-based file system, written in Rust , that provides a unique view of your files by removing the hierarchy constraints typically imposed on files and folders. In other words, it allows you to think about your files not as objects stored in folders, but as objects that can be filtered by folders. Below, the file path /A/B/C yields the intersection of all of the files that have been tagged with the tags A , B , and C . Notice that the resulting files do not live inside of the full path, they simply appear there because they’ve been tagged with each part of the file path. Supertag takes care of rendering a dynamic directory structure through which you can filter and navigate…from amoffat.github.io
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