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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Curious. I'm planning on doing exactly that with the various tech articles I've accumulated over the years. Calibre's multidimensional "filing" system will be far superior to the antiquated "filing cabinet" style folder/filename tree system. It will eliminate the need for duplicate articles in multiple categories. Just tag each article with every category/key word that could possibly apply to it and let calibre deal with storing and finding the article. This way, even an obscure application or tip within a tip could be found that a mere filename search would not reveal.
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I suspect you didn't like my library vs. filing cabinet analogy. It wasn't meant to portray the difficulty of finding the filed item. Both can be well indexed. It was meant to indicate that a library files individual books by a characteristic of the book, while a filing cabinet files groups of related work papers together (in a folder) by some characteristic of the group that may or may not appear in each individual paper.
The OP wanted to keep his documents/books together with other files the way individual papers are kept together in a folder.
Calibre is kind of like a giant automated free library that you can attach to your home if you just give it some space. It has shelves and a flexible indexing system. It has automated robots that fetch your books from the shelves. It will even let you walk around the shelves, if you wish.
However, Calibre requires you to use the shelves and indexing system, as designed, if you want the robot retrieval system and the library to work properly. If you absolutely insist that the books (or papers) be kept side by side with some other books (or papers) that are different in some way so that you can find them sitting side by side when you walk around the library, then Calibre is not for you.