Collected tags folder tagspaces12/29/2022 ![]() However, there isn’t a content-agnostic tool available that might let you view and organize all the content on your computer… other than Nautilus which is limited to files and folders. There is ongoing work on content-specific user interfaces that can work with Tracker to access local content, so for photos for example you can use GNOME Photos to view and organize your whole photo collection. However the caveat is for this to be at all useful you currently have to enjoy writing SPARQL queries on the commandline: Tracker itself is a “plumbing” component, the only interface it provides is the tracker commandline tool. In principle this is quite cool as you can, for example, search for all photos taken within a given time period, all songs by a specific artist, all videos above a certain resolution ordered by title, or whatever else you can think of (where the necessary metadata is available). GNOME has been innovating in this area for a while, and one of the results is the Tracker search and indexing tool which creates a database of all the content it finds on the user’s computer and allows you to run arbitrary queries over it. There must be a better way to find content than to grope around in a partially obscured tree of files and folders? ![]() #COLLECTED TAGS FOLDER TAGSPACES FULL#Perhaps the biggest change anyone has managed since then is that we now call directories “folders” instead, and that we obscure the full directory tree now pointing users instead towards certain entry points such as the “Music”, “Downloads” and “Videos” folders inside their home directory. ![]() ![]() We have been organizing files into directories for decades. The way we organize content on computers hasn’t really evolved since the arrival of navigational file managers in late 1980s. ![]()
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