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So this is something like Win7's "libraries" as a separate software or what?
-Tuxman (August 08, 2011, 04:45 PM)
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I don't think so...

YMMV, but for my money it appears to be something more like a cataloguing tool

Files are tagged (multiple tags can be used for any one file), and can be added to multiple groupings.

Tuxman:
Grouping files from different folders into "categories" ("catalogues", "tags", whatever) is exactly what libraries do AFAICS.

JavaJones:
Libraries are based entirely on inclusion of multiple folders into a single sort of "meta folder", a folder aggregation of sorts. They can provide similar functionality to Elyse I suppose, but it's much more simplistic and still requires complex folder hierarchy. The advantage of Elyse, at least as I read it (haven't tried it yet, but very intrigued) is it's based on tagging, which of course is very flexible. You can, for example, have multiple tags assigned to a single file, whereas you have to have copies of a file to be in multiple folders (or use weird referencing schemes and other crap which basically are a pain, if they work at all).

- Oshyan

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