> When OS X starts up with a search box open > instead of a blank desktop we'll know we are there :)
What a nightmare ! I'm sorry, but once you move past trivial amounts of information, correctly specifying the search or filtering through the results of a loosely specified search takes forever. My laptop has over a half-million files on it, with only a small fraction of my photos/music/movie collection and no files older than five years old on it. I use iMail and Spotlight as much as the next Mac user, but finding the right mail from (who was that ?) on (what month/year was that ?) about a common topic can be very frustrating. Whereas the spatial localization paradigm works wonderfully for me (perhaps as it is how I find things in the physical world ?) If I want to find something again, I put it in a certain place in my desktop/hierarchical file system/office/home. > For me, I think these ideas, plus new ones we haven't thought of, > combined with refined user interfaces developd based on user behaviors > are the future. The more the computer can predict what you want, the > more it can help you get your work done. You just have to give it a > hint. Secretaries and personal assistants have done this for years, but I don't believe that AI is up to the challenge yet. Of course, this doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve the current UIs... Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
