I’ve just discovered EagleFiler and I’m thinking about using it for 3 types of files:
email-messages from MailMate
TXT (as well as MD and TASKPAPER)
PDF
The email-messages seems the simplest: I would archive them in EagleFiler before deleting them from MailMate.
I’m not so sure about the PDFs and TXTs though.
**TXT
**I have a folder with the TXT-files.
Right now I’m creating new files and editing older ones with BBEdit (and only with BBEdit!).
This folder is also a local Git-repository, so I commit the changes now and then.
I copy the changed files - with DeltaWalker - in a mirrored folder in my Dropbox in order to have access to this files from my iPhone.
How would my TXT-process look if I would use EagleFiler for my TXT-files?
**PDF **
I have a folder with scanned and OCRed PDF-files.
Hazel adds and sorts to the subfolders of this folder from a) my Downloads-folder and b) my ScanSnap-folder.
How should I change my PDF-workflow in order to use EagleFiler for my PDF-files?
You could rearrange your folder structure or use a symlink so that the same files are in Git, EagleFiler, and Dropbox at the same time.
I don’t fully understand your current workflow, but it sounds like you would want Hazel to monitor the same folders but instead organize the files into subfolders in your EagleFiler library.
I would completely move all the text-files (= TXT, MD, TASKPAPER) from the actual TXT-folder to EagleFiler and edit the old files / create new ones only through EagleFiler (instead of direct through BBEdit), if… I could use BBEdit in EagleFiler (Please say yes!
I read the linked thread but I didn’t quite understand how to use a symlink for Git but I could probably delete the repository and create a new one after the files are in EagleFiler and I could gitignore everything that is specific to EagleFiler, right?
I would still rather use the cumbersome mirroring-method to Dropbox a little while because I couldn’t figure yet what iOS app leads to mysteriously purging hundreds of files (!) from the mirror-folder almost every time I’m accessing it from my iPhone.
Yes, it would be great if this would be possible!
My uncertainty was based on the fact that I understood that the update to the EagleFiler-libraries should always happen through EagleFiler… wouldn’t this be a problem then?
That’s fine. What I mean is that this folder would be inside the EagleFiler library’s folder.
Yes, if BBEdit is your default text editor you can just double-click the text file in EagleFiler to edit it with BBEdit. Or you could use the Record > Open With command.
Right.
OK.
Moving/deleting/renaming should be through EagleFiler. But it’s fine to use other apps to add new files.
The MailMate-Archive & TXT are living in EagleFiler!
The MailMate-Archive and my 1014 TXT-files are living now in EagleFiler. I’ve created a new Git-repository in the TXT-database and ignored everything related to the database.
The next step will be to move all the PDF-files (and the correspondent subfolders) into EagleFiler as well and to change all the Hazel-rules in order to deliver the files to the EagleFiler-PDF-database.
But I already have 2/3 success, so it looks like EagleFiler will win a new happy customer!
What’s the best way to replicate the whole structure of subfolders of the PDF-folder and import the files from each and every subfolder in EagleFiler?
(Please say yes! 
