Replacing Everything with Logseq

Posted by 22111
Apr 2, 2022 at 09:58 AM

WHAT?

I thought when discovering this thread title in the list: Voidtools Everything can be replaced by anything? Remind you that it comes with additional command line, etc. tools.

OK then, I had been misled by the (correct) capitalization in the title, and this having become a 99-p.c.-Apple forum, nobody here gives a heck (anymore) about possible confusion with the best free Windows(-only) software of all time (FreeCommander comes next, for its “Favorites” management which is better than all the same in any paid (Windows) file manager, and its bulk rename ditto).

So much then for the most terrible software naming of all time, and yes, exceptional non-capitalization would have helped here, all the more so since if you want to replace really “everything”, and then come up with some existant, specific tool, you could not be serious, right, so your “Everything” HAD to be the specific search tool, nay?

And, btw, that current “recipies” question: Why not use Everything (hehe) with file title tags, and then EV search presets (with constants for the folder your “recipies” (or whatever) are in, or other sub-grouping tags)?

EV’s ultimate beauty lies in the fact that from now on, you can file your files as you like, e.g. in functional groups, spread over the drives as you “really” (i.e. most often) need them in your work (or hobby), not by some other ontological criteria which might appear more “logical” at first sight, but which don’t reflect how you really work (or “work”) with them.

While you could very heavily with links (of different sorts) when all the (relevant) data is on the same drive, smart EV use will be so much more easy and fast, and as soon as the (relevant) data is spread over several, multiple drives, EV will save your day (and your budget).

Example: Hundreds or thousands of 5-gb iso files, let’s say backups of your DVDs (in countries where you own but you’ve bought, which is not the case e.g. in the European Union): Would you really want to group them by directors, or by countries (then by directors), or then rather by genre and even sub-genre, specific (main) characteristics (the most important for you, considering, in this example, the unwieldiness of doing copies, except perhaps in the most exceptional cases), reflecting your “use” of this data wealth?

And don’t speak of hard drive arrays, since they make all the drives run at the same time, which means unnecessary wear at the same time, in most use cases.

These, more special, “spread data” examples are made possible by EV’s capability to also present data of currently non-connected drives, but even for connected data, EV is invaluable, and whilst it cannot replace everything (hehe), it renders almost useless many of specific tools which then force their specific ways upon you, and which, even if, in most cases, they will ultimately let you export / transfer your raw data, will then, in many cases, withhold your painstakingly concocted, organizational “meta” data of various kinds.

Just saying.