[unqueued]

I think symlinks are really underappreciated for organizing files.

One cool thing you can do is to treat directories as tags when you symlink into them, since a file can 'belong' to multiple directories.

If you're using Windows, you can just use WSL and then you don't need administrative access as the OP's program does.

Here are some simple tools to let you use symlinks as tags:

https://github.com/perses76/refmat-symlink

https://mikeknowl.es/projects/ztag/

https://github.com/michaelknowles/ztag

But if anyone is curious about ways to better organize their files in general, I would check the writings of Karl Voit:

https://archive.baty.net/2018/using-karl-voits-file-naming-s...

https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to-Use-Tags/

Simple and portable self describing filenames has served me really well for a long time across many platforms.

This script has done a lot of lifting for me and it will work with WSL with little effort:

https://github.com/mdom/squaretag

[lytedev]

I have never thought of this and it's brilliant. I should definitely be able to whip up a relatively simple script for tagging arbitrary files with arbitrary tags. I was wondering how to achieve something like this for backup purposes and this should make it a breeze.