[IAEP] Article on Why files need to die

2011-07-15 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi all, I just saw this article over on O'Reilly Radar and a lot of what the author says also applies to the Journal: Why files need to die: Files are an anachronism in the digital age. It's time for something better. ( http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/why-files-need-to-die.html). So while it's

Re: [IAEP] Article on Why files need to die

2011-07-15 Thread Dave Bauer
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just saw this article over on O'Reilly Radar and a lot of what the author says also applies to the Journal: Why files need to die: Files are an anachronism in the digital age. It's time for

Re: [IAEP] Article on Why files need to die

2011-07-15 Thread John Watlington
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.

Re: [IAEP] Article on Why files need to die

2011-07-15 Thread Dave Bauer
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:01 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: 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

Re: [IAEP] Article on Why files need to die

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I think search is the answer. There's no reason why a hierarchal categorization can't be one of the wants to access information, but it certainly isn't the only way. I used recent documents feature very often, I usually