File management paradigm change?
As a curious, sometimes geek with nerd outbursts, user exploring and using newest techologies since 40 years
I'd like ProtonDrive to consider:
- merging all types of documents (office, audio, video, etc) into a single environment (as opposed to the Documents/Photos distiction)
- allow the user to chose to expose these documents to the OS
- providing labels/tags/keywords management (add, remove, batch rename)
- integrate these labels/tags/keywords within the files metadata without changing their modification date (as opposed to libraries systems strongly linked to products and service providers)
- providing views management (add, remove, rename) based on the aforementioned labels/tags/keywords
- providing a funtionality to generate a folder structure based on views
So that:
- Merging: one environment simplifies and generalizes the file management development and usage
- Labels, views: it doesn't matter anymore where I store files, but how I can find them easliy (consistent with ProtonMail's labels/views philosophy)
- Optionally expose files: for instance I can listen to music with my favorite 3rd party application instead of putting lots of effort for additional ProtonXXX apps
- Integrate labels, generate folder structure: portability is ensured for the day I decide to move my files to another platform (export folder structure with my personal categorization system without risk of loosing years of organization)
- Modification date: obviously the file management should't tamper with the effective file content change date
Thank you for considering shaping a futuristic UX with an open and portable file system management post-GAFAM and service provider independent! 😍
OutOfTheBox
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Tony the Geek
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This sounds like an absolute nightmare for how my brain works. It's why I never even considered gmail. +1 kmk
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Johan E. Bengtsson commented
You have posted the exact same suggestion twice - please do not do that, as there is enough clutter here as it is.
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I agree with Kmk - this would best be supported as a new feature "search folders", based on both the hierarchical folder structure and labels.
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kmk
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Please do NOT take away my ability to manage my file storage structure systems of folder hierarchies. Tagging will let the above poster do what he wants to do. It does NOT require taking away my organization system.
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OutOfTheBox
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Hum... I can't edit nor delete my first post about that, so I try republishing it... 🤔
♻️ **File management paradigm change**
This is a repost (deleted my former suggestion) as suggested by another user, to make it more clear, thank you. ❤️
I'm a curious, sometimes geek with nerd outbursts, user exploring and using newest technologies since 40 years.Unfortunately, I still see very old concepts and ideas still being implemented today by default, not because they're good, but because we're suffering from operational blindness.
🌏 **Context**
Managing files for users has not changed since 40 years: You work on a file and at some point you need to save it somewhere. You can chose drive C, D, ... then folder and subfolder A, B, C or library Documents, Music, Pictures, Photos, Videos and, oh gosh, this file should go into folder G and at the same time into the Documents library... Aaawww... 😵💫And there begins of all our data mess.
💡 **Idea**
Users shouldn't be bothered anymore to have to think of *where* they store their data (once of course they consciously selected a trustworthy service provider like Proton 😜), only *how* they can find them again. This would be consistent with ProtonMail's labels/views philosophy. 👍🏼They should only be offered the possibility to tag/label their files (manually, AI-automatically?) in order to find them easily later with **views** (flexible, not hard coded like a distinct Photo library for instance 😉).
✅ **Reflection points**
I'd like ProtonDrive to consider:- merging all types of documents (office, audio, video, etc) into a single environment (as opposed to the Documents/Photos distinction)
- allowing the user to chose to expose these documents to the OS (for instance I can listen to music with my favorite 3rd party application instead of putting lots of effort for additional ProtonXXX apps)
- providing labels/tags management (add, remove, batch rename)
- integrate these labels/tags within the files metadata without changing their modification date (as opposed to libraries systems strongly linked to products and service providers)
- providing views management (add, remove, rename) based on the aforementioned labels/tags/keywords
- providing a functionality to generate a folder structure based on views for portability (today I'm happy with Proton, tomorrow maybe not anymore, and I wouldn't want a migration nightmare with the risk of loosing years of organization)Thank you for considering shaping a futuristic UX with an open and portable file system management post-GAFAM and service provider independent! 😍