Re: [Ayatana] "fileless" paradigm

[David Stevenson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/11/10 21:05, cmaglothin wrote:
> To combat your argument that you need folders to keep organized, why not
> just supliment the idea of sorting by type with the adding of "projects."
> Not only could you search by filetype but you could link together files that
> are related in topic and have the "projects" searchable or tagged by their
> keyword.
> 
> On Nov 13, 2010 2:55 PM, "David Stevenson" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 13/11/10 19:00, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 23:39, Appi <appi2012@g...
> ----snip----
> 
>> this is just an example...
>> please name the issues you see, i don't see any! It's just only
>> imp...
> Well looking on my system I have a directory for a charity I am a
> director of, docs, photos & spreadsheets. A directory of a software
> project I worked on, docs, source & executables. One for the
> waterskiing, mostly videos, but some docs and saved web pages.
> I could go on but it would show how chaotic my filing is. So I am open
> to a better way to organise my life, but I do have my doubts that
> linking docs together because they are docs will help.
> David
> 
So I want to read up the minutes to an old committee meeting, I search
for "committee minutes", what do I then get? a list of those documents.
I guess if I search for  "committee minutes June 2010" it could then
open it directly for me.
Part of the problem is changing the way I think about the things stored
on the machine, I think in files.
David