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Re:Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for produc... by danseagrave on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:40PM (#10933821)
Talk of tag/DB based file systems always reminds me of WinFS[1]. Microsoft were trying to build a tag (well relational database) backed file system since 1990... eventually abandoned - presumably due to back-compat issues.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

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Re:Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for produc... by jpfed on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:23AM (#10936371)
Lots of reading material about the conception and death of WinFS: http://www.metafilter.com/134799/WinFS-what-it-could-have-be...
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