Once I drank the kool-aid, Yojimbo reduced my Documents folder, and it's hierarchy, significantly. My writing workflow is now plaintext/markdown based, so Yojimbo is an archive of my writing. On a smaller scale, I keep many of my text files in Yojimbo and use it to create collections. The idea is, in essence, to tag all of your files and use Spotlight and Smart Folders to find and "organize" those files. (Technically of course, a "folder" fits into this definition, but, ignoring aliases for the moment, a file can only live in one folder collection.)Ī few years back Lifehacker posted Metadata as a 'filing system'. As others have stated, Mac OS X doesn't currently directly support (what I would call) collections of files–groups of files related by user-defined criteria–directly. So, the short answer is a No, sadly, there no way to recreate this in the same way.įirst, a disclaimer that I haven't worked with the Windows Library function, so if I've missed some major benefit or function, I apologize. Creating a collection of sym links, or using the Burn folder (Great tip for creating sym link folder collections by the way) has the benefits of allowing you to write into the folder direct, but you will still have a top level where each individual source is shown separately rather than an amalgamation of contents that you can also write into.
In our Smart Folder attempts to recreate this the folder would necessarily be read only, as it's not a genuine location, and the only way we can add files into the folder would be to go to the source and add them direct. A new file added into it would go into the users default library directory. In the Windows 7 system it's not just a collection of (say) 3 users picture libraries shown individually in a picture library, it's the contents of those libraries all lumped together without any distinction as to where the originally came from. The problem is knowing where the default location for new files goes. The many options already offered make a great way to combine the existing files, but all fall down when it comes to adding new ones. There is no particularly complete way of replicating the libraries feature on Windows.
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