Ideas

Rating files in tag contexts

JCooper writes on 2007-07-05:

I can understand why people would want to rate their music, but not necessarily their files. I can only understand rating in comparison to other files - for example if I stored several documents in a folder relative to a project I was working on, I would want to score each file based on relevance, content quality, detail etc against all the other files in that folder. With this, I can only give each file a rating of x number of stars. What I'd like to do is rate each file, on a per tag basis.

That is the only way I can think of rating generic files (i.e. not media) being useful to me - having a rating per tag would MASSIVELY improve how I deal with my data. Just using an arbitrary scale of 1-5 is not that much use to me; I want to know how useful a file is going to be and, more importantly, I want my desktop search to understand that relationship too.