JDexr

Johnny Decimal directory navigation tool.

Overview

Jdexr is a CLI tool for navigating Johnny Decimal filesystems without having to remember exactly where everything lives. You annotate your directories once, and from there finding them is a keyword search away. The init command walks your filesystem up to a configurable depth, prompting you to assign keywords to each directory as it goes. Directories can be skipped, and you can add as many keywords as you want. Each directory gets a metadata.jd file at its root, keeping the annotations co-located with the content itself. This means you can freely rename or reorganize your filesystem and your metadata travels with it. A master index is generated from these files and cached locally for fast lookups, and can be rebuilt at any time with a single subcommand. From there, searching is straightforward; provide a keyword and Jdexr returns every matching directory. The results are designed to feed into tools like fzf, so you can fuzzy-search your filesystem and jump straight to where you need to be.

Technologies

• Go
• Cobra
• Viper

Key Features

• Keyword-based directory search
• Portable metadata
• Cached master index
• Configurable scan depth
• fzf-friendly output