Re: [emacs-humanities] Emacs "Projects" management?

[Alan Davis]

Thank you.  Now I remember that.

Are they persistent?   Can one collect and select from other searches to
populate further the smart folder?

A

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 9:59 PM Jean-Christophe Helary <
lists@traduction-libre.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On Oct 19, 2022, at 9:46, Alan Davis <alan3davis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A few years ago, I obtained an iMac, and encountered what I remember as
> > "virtual folders."  I may be imagining things, as I cannot seem to find
> > good information about it.
>
> They are called "Smart Folders" and are basically a display of a complex
> search result.
>
> You can search on any type of metadata, among which one that is called
> "tags".
>
> > Someone mentioned finder on the mac.  This is a
> > truly interesting tool.
>
> Finder is the macOS file manager but seen otherwise it is "just" a tool to
> display list of files based on various criteria, the most common being "the
> contents of that folder".
>
> >  I think there are solutions for GNU/Linux;
> > however, most of them seem to take time to learn and set up, if I
> > understand the lay of the land.  What I THINK (or perhaps hope) that
> > virtual folders can do is to provide a ROBUST way of sorting files into
> > meaningful buckets without actually having to move the file, making it
> > possible for several virtual folders to include one particular  file.
>
> Indeed. As I wrote above, "smart folders" are just metadata search results
> display windows.
>
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