Coming back to this conversation… also found this related discussion from a couple years ago.
So, improving real time search is important as it is the expected process in a tool like Google Drive, especially when you don’t know where things are, but what about the association of various Nextclud apps and their various implementations of tags.
I linked that above discussion because the question there is…
How do I associate a tagged file or folder with a bookmark tag?
Can Nextcloud as a software help us better organize and unite our data across many apps in a modular fashion?
I think of a modular synthesizer.
Modular synthesizers might include some sort of default signal flow that generates tones, but the real intention is to route and re-route each section to taste. It is the world of happy accidents, because there are always more and more ways to interconnect beyond just Input to output. That one input might be routed to a dozen outputs… or manipulated to behave in different manners in relation to particular outputs. The system is flexible and universal.
Nextcloud includes extremely useful apps, which are all accessible from the webui, but there is a missing opportunity for these apps to literally interrelate their data accessibility more. I think of it as each section of the instrument is isolated from the rest and only accessible individually. There is still the very real chance (and need) for all of the different apps in Nextcloud to harmonize and interrelate more directly.
I’d be curious to hear other thoughts on what possibilities can be imagined.