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Have you ever had problem classifying your files? I had a lot! For example, I classified my e-books by subjects: for each subject, I have a directory. But, sometimes there are books that goes on different categories. A book about "Aspect Oriented Programming in Java" can both goes to "Programming/Java" or "Programming/Design". And worse than that, what if you want to also categories your books by author or publication?
One day, I was talking about this with one of my friends. Like me, he was always classifies his files. We shared our techniques: using management applications (which can only classifies specific type of files), using soft links (which will be corrupted if files move). Then we came to an idea: we wished there was a file system that uses tags instead of folders. Then, we could classify our files anyhow we want!
Imagine that you can tag your files with anything: tag photos by location they captured, people in the photos, techniques you used (e.g. black & white, HDR), tag books with their subject, author, size, etc. Then, finding files is as simple as running a query like "give me all files tagged photo and my-love"! You don't have to create a depth tree of directories. Instead, you have some clean and nicely classified set of tags.
That was how Tocc born...
Also see the Vision of the project.