Getting rid of folders
January 20, 2003
0xDECAFBAD: I second that sacrilege
and
L.M. Orchard commits filesystem sacrilege
L.M. Orchard and Jon Udell talk about how hierarcy in file systems doesn't work for them. They want metadata rich datastores with persistable searches, and fast and dynamic interlinking.
This is the religion that drives KnownSpace. See some of it in Gregory Rawlins' orginal docs (a bit old), on the primary website, and as an application Helium (on which I happened to work).
KnownSpace suffers a bit from being more vision than action, but there's a lot there and the vision is good.
One of the major features planned in Helium (an email navigator) was persistable searches of the Pool. The Pool has no built in hierarchy, it is a collection of Entities, some of which happen to be the parts of email messages, some which could be saved searches which amount to very a general method of arbitrarily constraining the view of the Pool.
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