The imagined surface of my system of files is changing.

The web view is increasingly revealing itself to be the multi-media paradigm that I’m after, so the filesystem as thematic hierarchical underpinning is fading in significance.

This is a roundabout way of inviting the idea of a database, as opposed to the system of files that I have built and staunchly preserved thus far. As I have envisioned before, the next step down that path is likely something of an overlay database, where the working set is first ingested into a database and then processed, rather than being read from files directly. Advantages include the innate cacheing ability of this method, and a gradual on-ramp to multi-user contributions.