I think the next revolution needed in OS technology (after Windows 8 goes totally app/tablet based), is going to be a more dynamic file browser/system. 

Right now I have a few duplicate files on my hard drive. I’m very organized, and have folders for everything, like…

Music Projects -> With Luke Conard -> Erase This -> Supplemental Material -> Music Videos

So in that folder I’ll have the HD render of “Boxcar Blood”. But then I also have…

YouTube Projects -> fallofautumndistro -> Uploaded -> Music Videos

And the HD render of “Boxcar Blood” is in there too.

It’s important to keep it in both directories, because I have made music videos that aren’t for my own songs on fallofautumndistro. And I’ve made music videos for Erase This songs that were uploaded outside of fallofautumndistro. And I’d like to keep both folders complete as far as both of those distinctions are concerned.

So it’d be fantastic if I didn’t have to waste space on keeping two copies of that file. Now, I know I could use a shortcut, but then if I move one of those folders to a different drive, the shortcut is useless.

Wouldn’t it instead be better to have meta data attached to each file, almost like how iTunes handles Song ID info. I could keyword tag the HD render of “Boxcar Blood” with “YouTube, Music Video, fallofautumndistro, Erase This, With Luke Conard, HD render” and have it then show up in any of those keywords when I browse/search.

I dunno. That’s my really long feature request.