Linked by Marcus Carlson on Wed 21st Jul 2004 18:17 UTC
In these days there has been much fuzzing about the new browsing with files organizing themselves with the help of meta data. Maybe you ask yourself "What have this to do with the spatial browsing in gnome and how can it improve the browsing?". That's what I did. As I see it, the gnome people have introduced the spatial browsing so we are used to it when this new browsing is coming to town. This is very intelligent move of the gnome people and will help us adopt faster to this. This is when the spatial browsing is really making sense. I hope you see this when you've read this article.
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Like so many have said before, BeFS did this years ago. Now Reiser4 is doing it. but if you have a Gmail account, you will see it there too.
Gmail don't allow you to create folders for grouping or categorizing your mails. that is old and you sometimes get mail that can be in several folders. what do you do then? so Gmail allows you to crate labels, like attributes. you can select a number of emails and apply the same labels to it. or while reading the mail, apply a label to it.
Your labels appear like folder names. you select a label and it shows all the mails with that label. or you can select a "all mails" label which you don't apply, which shows all the mail. the best part, is that you can apply several labels to the same mail. hence y i use my Gmail account.
I have labels like FYI, Account Info., Personal, Business, OS Dev., Tutorials, and Reference. Just about every email i get gets tagged with one or more of those labels. If those were folders as in other email programs or on my computer, who would I classified some of the things which fall into more than one? i would have to duplicate one or more of the sub-categories and that nonsense.