For anybody not familiar with git-annex, this is not a new blog post and the metadata view support has been usable for a while now.

I like git-annex and Joey Hess has done an admirable job continually improving it.

But I'm still only partially satisfied with my setup. I actually think this kind of problem probably does need to be solved at the filesystem layer if you want a great user experience. I hope something like bazil.org matures soon.

This is part of git-annex, a excellent piece of work written in Haskell: http://git-annex.branchable.com/

There is also a Web-App called "assistant": http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/

You can support the author here: https://campaign.joeyh.name/

Excellent work. I've been looking for a decent alternative to Ubuntu One and this may be it....

cool idea, i recently decided to use tagspaces as my multiplatform semantic 'filesystem' solution - but this might be better. I also toyed with the idea to query across filetype tags which can be embedded in the files themselves (mp3, mp4, markdown, html support metadata) but I haven't come across a system that utilizes and caches this in a multiplatform way (DevonThink comes close but is OSX only).

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