On 12/05/05, Matt Kirchhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoth Reinout van Schouwen on 5/7/2005 4:10 AM: > > bothered with. We're not there yet, but ideally, retrieving users' > > information should be taken care of completely by the computer. > > > > Are you hinting at projects like Beagle & LaunchBox as one possible > future for Gnome file "management"? >
Actually that's the Next Big Thing in document management. The technology is mature for that and it will be a major improvement in computers usability. Many people have already realized that, and some of them are in charge of important software development companies/movements. Direct access to the file system is only good for storing hierarchical information, but most information recall is done by associative memory and best accessed through associative retrieval tools (a.k.a. searching by content/properties/metadata/keywords) and navigating by relations (a.k.a. del.icio.us "related tags"). I predict that all major Desktop environments will organize user information that way in at most two years from now. Mac OS X is already there, since the release of Tiger with Spotlight. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
