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[aintbroke]

A few days ago, I woke up with the most brilliant idea in the world: Internal computer tagging.

Do any of you out there not know about del.icio.us? Because it's a beautiful website, and oh, the ability to tag things rather than putting them in folders! So good! So, brilliantly awesome. But I am greedy, and I love how del.icio.us works so much, that it's physically painful to have to organize things into folders on my computer.

I mean, think about it. If there were some program that allowed you to affix searchable tags to any kind of data- I would be able to tag my music with important notes like where I found the artist, or how I would classify the mood, or (and this is a big one) when I found the particular mp3. I would be able to organize my .pdf library, so that I'd know when, and for what, I downloaded the file, in addition to the subject and authors. (Like an annotated bibliography! Right on my harddrive!) I could classify images I've saved as photo reference, or interesting in their own right, or both! I could find illustrations of girls with cats, or photographs of girls with cats; all from a central location, without browsing though my entire harddrive of stupid! And really, oh, really, I want a meaningful way to organize vids- by source material, vidder, artist, genre: and I want to be able to do it all at once.

But! I can not be the only person who feels this way. I take comfort in the fact that someone who understands programing better than I do is probably already at work on this. At least I hope they are, because I have seen the future with my own two eyes, and I can't wait for it to get here.

Comments

[insumatt.livejournal.com]

geeky brilliance D: i would LOVE THAT T____T;;;; bahahaha "my entire harddrive of stupid" lkasjg;lakjsdg :D;;;;; ♥

[analytic127.livejournal.com]

but then I would actually be able to find that file I so desperately need right now, which would probably violate some law of nature. Luckily programmers are working on such things (http://metafs.sourceforge.net/). Unfortunately, they aren't paid to work on such things (why?). Perhaps there is hope for the hierarchically disinclined.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

If/when Google comes out with an operating system, that's just what it will be like. You have become a cataloguing geek, my friend. When that peace corps gig is up, you should totally become a librarian. ;)