The File System Is the Database
There’s no database behind my daughter’s archive. No table of photos, no index, no metadata store. When the app needs to know what’s in “July 2026,” it opens the July 2026 folder and looks. That sounds lazy. I’d argue it’s the opposite — it’s the one decision that keeps the whole system simple enough for one person to maintain. How It’s Organized The archive is just folders on the NAS: ...