You might also be interested in MacFUSE, the Mac port of the File-system in USErspace project. It allows one to write filesystems pretty easily (though with lower performance than native file systems, naturally).
One of the demos is a Spotlight file system, which in combination with the tagging using Spotlight comments could presumably create a tagged filesystem in Mac OS X:
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2007/01/spotlight-file-system-for-macfuse.html
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Hmm, so I just got this working - remarkably simple actually. However the new Spotlight folders get filled with too much stuff, e.g. if I created a folder with a name of one of my projects it gets filled with all sorts of things, all the source files that have the same text in their path name.
I guess there is probably some way to exclude certain directories or types of files, but of course what I really want is to be more proactive about the tagging, ideally with my linklens type "location" sensitive approach ...
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