Really nice idea! As a data hoarder myself, I think I will follow this as way to remind myself of the things I truly should archive :)

I copy the images in my clipboard and save them in an HTML file to have single-file galleries:

https://gist.github.com/egeozcan/b27e11a7e776972d18603222fa5...

Live:

https://gistpreview.github.io/?b27e11a7e776972d18603222fa523...

Selecting via file-picker works too. Dragging usually does not. When all works, images are inserted inline as blobs.

After adding images, if you save the page (literally file->save), the blobs are saved together. don't want a part when saving (for example, removing images)? inspect element, remove, save page.

throw the page on some server or just double click on your computer/mobile.

Love it! True to the original vision of the WWW. Tim Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb browser was also an editor.

https://github.com/cadars/john-doe gives me the same feels.

That is slick. Offline first in the truest sense.

This is very cool, thank you for sharing.

Strict hierarchies are indeed too rigid. What about using a tag-based file manager like TagSpaces (which is free and open-source)?

MacOS also supports tags.

nice idea