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by derefr 5713 days ago
This goal isn't really that far off. Modern OSes already have a composite, relational metadata index built by the system Search indexer; if an Explorer/Finder-alike simply hid all the hierarchical detail, and presented the already-relational information relationally, as a set of libraries (with rendering plugins so, for example, iTunes could display your song library prettily within the file manager itself) you'd already be 90% of the way there.