Feature: Auto tag files and folders #11992
Description
What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?
I got this idea from the discord, after someone put a request up for auto deletion. They were a video editor, so this they said, would help them free up some storage. I sent a couple messages in the thread, and eventually I started wondering about instead sort of "autotagging" files as they aged.
It could be set up so that if a file meets certain parameters it could automatically tag it, bringing file sorting to another level. As an example, coming back to the video editors request, after a certain time, it could move the file to a tag saying something like "Unused". After this, (say a month later) it could be moved into a "Sort" tag. Another month, and it could finally be moved into a tag saying "Delete".
Of course, tagging depending on date doesn't need to be the end. It could possibly move its folders depending on the last modification, or even when it was named differently.
I think this would be very useful, and I could see it becoming one of the main reasons people may choose to go with Files.
Thanks!
Requirements
- The file tagger will help sort peoples files by auto tagging them when they meet certain parametres.
- There should be a warning screen displayed if a autotagger is going to tag a lot of files when it is first created.
- This would also mean that people could back out easier.
- It would be necessary for there to be an easy way to mass remove files from tags.
- I might add this in another post, but they way this could be done, is by having a tagging history. This possibly be incorporated in the "ongoing tasks" dropdown. Maybe with a button in it to change views.
- So as not to cause any confusion, the menu would have to revert to it's original ongoing tasks setting every time that the ongoing tasks menu was closed.
Files Version
2.4.40.0
Windows Version
10.0.22621.1413
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