-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I remain unconvinced that a journal, even with enhanced tagging and searching, is the best solution.
I am pretty well convinced. | While making things easier for novice users, (the "low entry"), it takes away the "high ceiling" that a hierarchical structure can give the non-novice user. How so? Both tags and hierarchies provide a combinatorial explosion of labels for objects. In fact, unless you have directories like /foo/bar/baz AND /bar/baz/foo, tags are just as good as directories for uniquely identifying objects. | I have found the concealment of the underlying directory structure from the user quite frustrating when working with email attachments. It would be good to hear your specific frustration in this use case. | The journal rapidly fills with rubbish, I could not turn off the autosave. As you may have noted, the new Journal designs (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs/Journal) provide a "Star" column to identify important entries. A single click then shows only the starred entries. New objects, such as e-mail attachments, will not generally be starred on creation. | The journal is OK but should it be the only tool available to the user? Isn't the best file system the one which most empowers the user? How does the Journal fail to empower the user? With tagging and versioning, the Journal design empowers the user to organize their objects, find their objects by organization scheme or by content, and never lose something because they forgot to save it. That seems like plenty of power to me. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkillzYACgkQUJT6e6HFtqTlzwCcCrMUrsk2D3xjnR9Btb56sUIH a/YAn1HaaciMv38+Mut8wjfVu0IyNxkL =eGdW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep