What does HackerNews think of broot?
A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot
Language:
Rust
Also Broot, which is-- like OP's tool-- intended as an ls replacement rather than a full file manager: https://github.com/Canop/broot
A past coworker implemented a system like this. It was awful. He was the gatekeeper because the numbers had to be "just so" to meet his approval, and he was the most senior person on the team.
Limiting yourself to a handful of categories at each level makes sense, but numbering everything is a bad idea. It's busywork, and other people have to learn your idiosyncratic nomenclature. Just give the directories good names. Search really isn't as bad as the article suggests, especially with something like broot [1].
This is powerful though I don't use it much yet
https://github.com/Canop/broot
+1 for broot[1], it works so fast and can be used even to fuzzy search sub-sub-directories. I'm also bit lost on the features but the help is quite good and mostly I use it just to find a directory and enter it, which requires only one keyboard shortcut.
`broot` (https://github.com/Canop/broot) is another file manager with a curious interface that seems to fill a similar niche.
Of course, there are many other file managers to choose from (mc, ranger, nnn, lf, ....), but most of them don't show nested subdirectories by default.