On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:07:32 -0500, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:16 PM 2/23/05 -0600, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > >Jef did not originally, and you do not in your supporting post, > >address the issue of merging the lists that Jef seems to propose. > > I'm just being supplementary. But think of a Palm and how it organizes > addresses by categories. It's a droplist of choices. You can choose any > category you name, or "all", and you see those elements. So you could have > the lists sorted the "old way" or any way, and it would all be available. > Opera's mail client does that, and I think Gmail as well.
Even better than merely categories, Gmail has "Labels." You can attach any number of labels to a particular message, rather than having to pigeonhole it into on specific category. This kind of "flat hierarchy" is gaining ground for Internet-based information storage; an online social bookmarking site I use, called del.icio.us ( http://del.icio.us ) does a similar thing but calls the groups "tags" instead. I really like that method of organization. What if an email message or bookmark fits equally under the headings "notation," "music," and "finale"? With the flat hierarchy you can separate all three of these concepts but still place single items into all three groups if it's logical to do so. -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com FinaleIRC (come chat!): http://finaleirc.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
