link farm - (feature req)

[mnp]

Consider leaving the files where they lie, and then create a tree of symbolic links pointing to the files. The advantage here is you can have a number of "views" into the files by adding more trees of links. This lets a file be referred to by a number of views. Eg,

Downloads
│   ├── OriginalFiles
│   ├── ByDate
│   │   └── 2015
│   │   └── 2014
│   ├── ByType
│   │   └──docs
│   │   └──pdfs
│   │   └──zip
│   ├── Bills
│   │   └──Comcast
│   │   └──Verizon
│   ├── CodeProjects
│   │   └──C++
│   │   └──Java

I guess looking into a file and categorizing by keyword is a different classification feature, like you might want to look into a PDF (ocr it?) and depending on predefined keyword list, stick it in Verizon, Date, and Bills trees.

Keeping the link farm synchronized with the real files might get interesting. You might want several policies, the simplest of which is blow away all the links and regenerate after a rule changes.

[psachin]

This can be additional feature(s) like: 'don't move but create a symlink'