I started NTROP7 about half a year ago, when I was learning how desktop apps

handle files. I was using Obsidian for everything and kept hitting the same

walls: it forces a vault-centric model, the sidebar gets noisy with hundreds

of files, and reorganizing across projects feels heavy.

So I built my own.

What it is

NTROP7 is a file manager that organizes things visually:

Wardrobes → top-level containers (one per project, life area, etc).

Books → groups inside a wardrobe.

Chapters → sections inside a book.

Files → at any level.

Each level is a real folder on your disk. There is no proprietary database;

the structure IS your filesystem. You can open the folders in your normal

file explorer and everything is where you would expect.

Why I built it

A few concrete things that bothered me with Obsidian and pure file managers:

Vault lock-in : switching between projects in Obsidian means closing

the vault and reopening another.…