Good morning all you fine Quicksilverers. I have a few pontifications to lavish.
In the words of the 20th century lama Chögyam Trungpa, "precision breeds relaxation." Having my Bookmarks in the Catalog triples the size of the Catalog, which is why I don't want it. (Having my iTunes music in there would multiply the size of the Catalog 100x and is laughably out of the question.) In my father's carpentry shop, his single organizational principle is "ready to hand/out of the way". That is, each item in the shop must be either close to hand or out of the way. The reasoning behind each item's placement is actually less important than the discipline of the message: each item must be explicitly the one or the other. The human mind will certainly find excellent "whys" to fill in blanks. In QS, this means that I carefully curate what goes into the Catalog. Perhaps hmelman has the answer: perhaps, given time, QuickSilver's machine learning will correctly organize the shop for me. I certainly haven't given it enough time to claim that it doesn't. Less the possibility of that *deus ex machina, *each person needs to draw the line between "ready to hand" and "out of the way" differently. I do believe that the very act of drawing the line is a useful clarifying exercise: even if the computer would eventually (and implicitly) draw much the same lines on my behalf. All of that said, "which water is too pure has no fish". So, I'm going to dump the bookmarks into my beautiful Catalog for a week and see whether I'm still rifling through garbage at the end. On Saturday, July 21, 2012 12:32:53 AM UTC-4, hmelman wrote: > > > On Jul 20, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Daniel wrote: > > A more general solution would be a way of making any set of Catalog >> scanners into a separate Catalog. Essentially, a way of maintaing n >> Catalogs on n different key sequences. >> > > That is an absolutely awesome idea (something I've thought of before, > myself). +1 if there's anyone interested in implementing. > > > So why is this useful? I'm sure there's something I'm not understanding. > It strikes me as "I want to find this stuff but not have it in the catalog, > well put it in the catalog". > > What's the issue with having one catalog with everything? When you want to > find something it's still in there. Just type a little more the first few > times and then QS learns. Are you browsing the results list rather than > continuing to type to find something in it? > > Howard > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en
