Filesystem as Database
Here's the Contacts editor on Haiku, BeOS' spiritual successor which is actually just a file manager window with a specific set of attributes displayed.
— https://twitter.com/waddlesplash/status/1224119010482171904 ↗
- filesystem could "just" store data blobs with user-defined metadata and custom (materialized) views
- querying could be done one level "higher" - no need for folders and files
- folder and file UI could be just one of the views on top of that storage
- I could as easily ask for last
nimages, everything linked to idea of memex etc... - spreadsheet-like interface could be interesting as well here
- this gets even more exciting when combined with Plan 9 vision where everything is a file
- I could as easily ask for last
— Metaphor in User Interface Design ↗
- computation as database retrieval (also viewing and filtering)