![]() but I seem to dislike Apple software more and more. Like many others, I love Apple computers and gadgets and was thrilled and amazed at Apple's offering since they came out with OSX Jaguar way back when. Sometime it seems like some big software companies have way too many software designers trying to change things just for 'change-sake' or just in order to justify their existence. And we get a society full of silly and needless laws" (or a quote something like this.) So they make up work for themselves in order to justify their existence. Like someone once said (George Carlin?)."We have way too many lawyers. ![]() Mihand has both properties of tagging and hierarchical systems, and it organizes files and folders flexibly using tags in Dropbox. Use tagging to organize files, we can find them flexibly and gradually. We can also use search function to find them, but the result are flat list. If the related files are in different folders, we need to browser different folders to find them separately. If we know the exact location of the file, we can find it quickly in traditional hierarchical system. You may not even notice, at first, that there is a difference from the traditional hierarchical system, except that it's far more flexible and much faster to navigate. If you still want to organize keywords hierarchically, that's a good way of going, except there's nothing stopping you from having duplicates of keywords in other categories, where-as creating endless amounts of file aliases and shortcuts becomes tedious. The benefit is that hierarchical systems, while great for many things, can break down in cases where there is need for intense cross-referencing. The difference is that the file actually lives in one giant library, sort of like a song in iTunes. Instead of creating folders, we create keyword macros, maybe even these keywords can be organized hierarchically in a very similar manner that folders are today. One simply has to transplant the current system over. It may sound like a recipe for disaster, but if implemented correctly, could be actually fairly similar to how we organize files today, but a lot more powerful. And instead of organizing files hierarchically, files are organized non-linearly and called up souly by keyword searches. The idea is to put keyword tags on every file that's created. It's an old concept, a simple one, but infinitely effective. This is an idea I first considered about 8 years ago, and even wrote up an essay on it, I believe I may have even passed it on to Apple. Not that anyone cares a diddly-squat what bothers me or what I like. But now that I know it's a beach, I'm much happier about it. To have it come right into the computer that I use was really a sickening thought. I mean, they're disgustingly hung up on the local teams. I live in a town where everybody is hung up on sports teams, and it just gets sickening after a while. It's a beach near San Francisco which is a favorite for surfers. Well, well I just figured out that Mavericks is a BEACH! So when Bayswater said "Life's a beach," I guess he knew the inside joke. Even if it's just an expansion of what's already there. Tags = welcome and long needed addition to the OS. I've never seen comments that made it through a system upgrade, or if I have, I don't remember it, because I've tried to use Comments as a sort of meta-tag system. You have always been able to store comments about a file, but those disappear if you sneeze. That's been a serious drawback of the Finder and how the Mac works in general. ![]() ![]() I'm just glad they are finally giving us full metatag capability in the whole OS. In function, they're a very limited form of tags, and they've always been with us. They're still tags, and you can search by them. Sure, you can't assign more than one to a file, but they're not metatags in the strict sense of the word. Mountains, rivers, Tourist sites… Anything else!Īs for Finder tags - color labels - it's all a matter of how you use them. Why not String Quartets? Rock Bands? (well, that one is obvious getting the rights would be a nightmare) But basketball teams? I'm seriously disappointed in Apple.īeaches would make good names. Not that it matters what I am but surely they're not going to name their operating systems after sports teams. Other than Baseball, I'm a nonfat of team sports. Shooshie wrote:Is Mavericks really the name of the OS? Are they embarking on a new naming system involving sports teams? I really despise that. ![]()
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