what if Finder looked like this?

Vite App

Tag-browsing Demo - might take a hot sec to boot up

WIP Video demos:

working doc

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/828e211d-31a6-4497-94ce-0fa4ad9047c2/img.mp4

general tag-based efficiency

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/7f333ae0-dbcc-4e33-9d0b-b8fdff9cbbcf/dragdrop-demo.mp4

drag and drop file organization! without losing context!

Overall Goal:

Bring web-style content search and categorization to the desktop file system. Break away from constraints of hierarchical file structures for organizing documents!

• Previous pages with thoughts on this topic

Proof-of-concept graph display of files. currently just unwieldy trees ☹️

Short term goal: a flexible programmatic framework

provide a Proof-of-concept testing ground that allows for experimentation with different ways of organizing files without changing the underlying data system.

Establish a framework to abstract file references into any conceptual data structure and present them flexibly to the user

• Objects involved

MVP: Tag-first file system within any folder on your computer

Allows for graph-like interaction between labels (folders) and files (files)

Instead of nesting to find a file path, we use intersection. allows a file to be in 2 "places" at once

Projects > Manila > UX Team > WIP > screens

Becomes:

#screens + #UX + #WIP + #Manila

(or even a view called "design review")

Why tags-first?

Moving files is as easy as adding a hashtag. no crazy drag-and-drop, where-is-that-folder.

Folder structures can become repetitive.

• helps prevent duplicate locations as hashtags that already exist are suggested
• tags help add metadata to files to improve searchability. less "what was that file called...?"