January 31, 2006
The Mac OS Binder
Posted by bopuc at January 31, 2006 02:45 AM
Not Finder, Binder.
Simple app, basic UI on top of a database and a few APIs.
Allow me to manage all my tags, local and remote. Remote tags could be stored locally for apps like ecto, 1001, Cocoalicious; local tags for things like MailTags, Quicksilver's File Tagging Plugin, etc.
Allow me to manage "Project" labels, or Bundles. Give me a basic hierarchical system to use if I want to. Just like the directory system I am already used to. (Whatever happened to the rumored "Piles" and "File Cabinets" functionality in the Finder? [please no hemorrhoids jokes])
Use open standards and document your interfaces sufficiently so that other developers can easily communicate with you.
Bind my data so I can Find what I am working with at any given moment: *This* email is part of *this* project which uses *these files* in *this folder*, with *this To Do and Task list*, on *this schedule* in *this Calendar*, with *this outline of notes*...
So... very... close...
Addendum:
While it is a closed, commercial application, Omni Group's "OmniOutliner" allows storing Aliases to files and folders from within outlines. VERY useful. More useful would be if I could bind my MailTags projects to one Outline file each. Just thinking out loud.
Comments
Posted by: yo at February 23, 2006 01:03 PM