newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System

Manuel Arriaga writes "After two years of hard work (and many scrapped versions), I have just released a (ugly, but working!) preview version of newdocms, a completely new document management system. newdocms isn't a file browser: it is a layer between the hierarchical file system (HFS) and the user, which provides a radically new way to store and retrieve documents. No longer will you browse complex directory trees or directly interact with the HFS; instead, you define any number of document attributes when saving a document and then query a database of those attributes when trying to retrieve it later on. For the first time you have a true alternative to the hierarchical file system at the OS level. Through the modification of the KDE shared libraries, newdocms currently works with all KDE apps! (I am looking for volunteers to add support for GNOME and OpenOffice.org!) This is a testament to the power of free software: this sort of innovation could never happen if it weren't for the free software nature of the underlying systems."

Comments

Re:Remind anyone of something?

[dreamchaser]

Welcome to Slashdot, where hypocracy reigns supreme.

This isn't a troll, just an observation based on facts. If you mod me down just because you disagree, I would submit that YOU are the troll ;)

don't you mean...

[Ender Ryan]

Don't you mean, "vim /documents/foo/bar/fubar.txt"?

:-)

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Pico is just such a bad, baaad editor. It's sort of become the "editor of the idiot" on Linux. When I used to use pico, I was too embarrassed to admit it, so whenever posting something about editing a file, I would substitute something else for pico ;-)

So next time, to save some embarrassment, try substituting nedit, vim, vi, emacs, or better yet, ed ;-)