Tigger is a file manager that runs as a webserver with optionally many users. It's good for sharing a media drive with friends. It's also good for organizing files because it flattens the normal hierarchical directory structure into tags; given /books/russia/lenin.pdf the tags named books & russia are applied to the file lenin.pdf. It even keeps the directories & tags in sync if either changes. Try it out!
Stash your private files in an encrypted, strictly authenticated web app that you yourself host. This avoids using 3rd party services that could be shut down or snooped by the NSA.
Allow select friends to use your webapp to help you organize your shared collection of private files. Your friends can also upload their own files to the collection.
Organization is done by tagging. A file called hyde_park.png might be tagged with London or Photo for easier searching and filtering.
Tigger has a magic directory that it shares. Either the environment variable SHARED_PATH or ./public/.#files
This directory should probably be your largest harddrive or RAID array to maximize the number of files you can store.
This directory could also be your Bittorrent Sync directory, so you can more efficiently backup your files, p2p, encrypted & authenticated, with your select friends. Your friends can then run their own Tigger instances to distribute the load on the web UI, but have the same files continuously synced among all Tigger instances. All without the NSA interfering.
Install Node from nodejs.org. In ubuntu you can instead run apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js ; apt-get update ; apt-get install nodejs
Install meteor with curl install.meteor.com | sh
From within the project directory run:
meteor npm install to grab dependencies
meteor to start the webserver and mongo db
Open localhost:3000 in a browser
Inside ./private/ssl_proxy/, run npm install
Also run sudo ./main.js - sudo is because it connects to a restricted access port, 443
Kill the development meteor and instead, run ROOT_URL=https://YOUR_IP_OR_HOST_NAME meteor
Open port 443 in your firewall/router and navigate to your ip or hostname as an https url.