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NTROP7: a new way to manage files. Give it a try

DEV Community·CARLOS ENRIQUE CASTRO LAZARO·24 days ago
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I started NTROP7 about half a year ago, when I was learning how desktop apps handle files. I was using Obsidian for everything and kept hitting the same walls: it forces a vault-centric model, the sidebar gets noisy with hundreds of files, and reorganizing across projects feels heavy. So I built my own. What it is NTROP7 is a file manager that organizes things visually: Wardrobes → top-level containers (one per project, life area, etc). Books → groups inside a wardrobe. Chapters → sections inside a book. Files → at any level. Each level is a real folder on your disk. There is no proprietary database; the structure IS your filesystem. You can open the folders in your normal file explorer and everything is where you would expect. Why I built it A few concrete things that bothered me with Obsidian and pure file managers: Vault lock-in : switching between projects in Obsidian means closing the vault and reopening another. NTROP7 lets you have multiple wardrobes open at once with split view.…

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