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[Felipe Erias Morandeira <femorandeira@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/12/10 15:50, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:22, Felipe Erias Morandeira
> <femorandeira@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:femorandeira@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     My point is just that there is some research that shows that people are
>     good at structuring personal projects in evolving hierarchies. The
>     current solutions have several problems for this, as outlined in this
>     and other pieces of research.
> 
> there you nailed it!
> We use evolving hierarchies to structure personal projects.
> 
> is this good, or is it bad?


That's just how we are wired :-)

They (we!) like solutions that have a more or less good mapping with the
physical world, where things can only be in one place and they tend to
stay there until moved somewhere else.

That's also one of the reasons that explain why people keep using
folders and subfolders as the main way organize their personal archives,
instead of using search-based systems as their primary tool.


Felipe

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