Having read the Ars Technica article is what made me realize that Spotlight could be so much more...the framework is there it just needs to be tapped into. There is really nothing today stopping someone from building the type of environment you described. I just wish there was a better way to set metadata for files. Yes, I did notice the Spotlight Comments. But to me this seems backwards. If I have to go and manually set the metadata for just about every file I work with, this seems just as time consuming as organizing things into files. Which is what Spotlight is trying to avoid. If I create a project in Xcode and link some files into that, Spotlight should take note that these files are associated with a certain project. Similar ideas could be used for photos or documents or whatever.
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