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" <da...@avoncliff.com> wrote: > > On 13/11/10 19:00, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 23:39, Appi <appi2...@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
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