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   Imagine you have a collection of images. Sometimes you want to view them in chronological order. However, chances are these pictures are not taken uniformly over a period of time. In other words, certain periods have more pictures than others. What kind of view can give you - A complete picture of the whole timeline for which pictures are available Time periods when you have more pictures than others An easy way to drill down into any period of interest This is wheel of time view in graph-brain . Since this is just a view and not a rigid directory structure, it allows additional conveniences. e.g. if you only have a single picture in a particular year, clicking on the year will take you directly to the picture. You don't have to navigate through month and day. Lessons Learnt On Linux, you can change the modification time of a file to an older date via touch. Timestamp format is %Y%m%d%H%M.  touch -t 202308281900 file   On Linux, you can obtain file modification time as a timesta

    Firefox provides the option to add tags to your bookmarks for categorization. These tags are available at this URL. chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml   If you want to access the same from GNU Emacs, you should backup as JSON to preserve tag information ( Import and Backup > Backup... ). The command graph-firefox-bookmarks parses this information and presents a graphical view. The command org-open-at-point opens the link in the browser. Code https://github.com/atamariya/tumblesocks/blob/dev/graph-pack.el https://github.com/atamariya/tumblesocks/blob/dev/graph-enclose.el https://github.com/atamariya/tumblesocks/blob/dev/graph-draw.el https://github.com/atamariya/tumblesocks/blob/dev/graph-brain.el