The Index doesn’t just show the category and provide an id for files - you store a record of the metadata for the files in the note against the filename under the ID?
So it isn’t a schematic map of the library, it really is a library-index system, as in where to find everything in your life (that is in scope --Hence the need for scope)
I need to tease you away from your file system. Files are heavy from a mental perspective. Consider the process of creating a note in Word. Actually, let’s not. It’s exhausting just thinking about it.
My sense of the way most people see it is: the textual notes in the index (whether in one file or in multiple files) contain all the text matches that will help to find which file(s) you need to open to get to what you want. Whether that’s metadata, or related terms, or notes about something salient.
exactly, I think. In my case, the former is provided by viewing the folder tree itself. The index is the catalogue computer which allows you to find where all the books are located which match any given search terms.
Is the question do I record all files in my index? If so: no.
You can, if you want. I don’t. It’s overkill.
What I do record, if it’s ambiguous, is the location of those files. Say I’ve got a mind map in my ~/iCloud Drive folder (because I’m editing it on the iPad and having it there makes life easier).
In this case, I might look in my normal file system structure, not see the mind map, and wonder where it’s gone. A bit of metadata in the index solves this problem.
I wonder where things have gone all the time, because I have not listened to your advice on putting some records in the index . I know the tickets/reservations I have purchased for the next 2 months are in category 15, but I cant for the life of me find the PDF I saved that has the dates for the local churches Christmas parties!
Yes, a meta data note in your system that corresponds to the file that are not obvious from the context - either because they may have some inherent ambiguity in the matter, or because they might be hard to find – I have some files split across different drives because different clients can access different systems, being on loan is, of course the classic library example.
another case, I’m thinking of are resource libraries for instance - not just ebooks, but audio and video sources, these are likely to be in dedicated apps, or in a suite of apps given the reference manager can’t hold it all, in which case there is just a category that points to the app, as it were, or where they are in different places in different forms. But that’s another story, I think. Do you have a thread on that already?
Yep, a nice example. I don’t recall a thread discussing that specifically, but the idea is the same: just note it with a Location: meta-field in your index.
. I know the tickets/reservations I have purchased for the next 2 months are in category 15, but I cant for the life of me find the PDF I saved that has the dates for the local churches Christmas parties!