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[Christian Giordano <christian.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry guys if I am a bit late on this, and didn't really follow all the
discussion, I just wanted to throw on the table a project by some fellows
which might be related and of interest:

http://itsme.it/project/


<http://itsme.it/project/>Best, chr

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Felipe Erias Morandeira <
femorandeira@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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