Re: The State Of The Art

["Dr Geek" <dr_geek hotmail com>]

Adam Moyes <adam@macfar.demon.co.uk> skribis:
>But the problem is finding these links. A hirearchical approach is not 
>always
>appropriate (what should be a parent of what is not always immediately 
>obvious),
>and there is only limited space on the desktop (and its flat).
Take a look at Natrificial's Brain (http://www.natrificial.com/) for an 
alternative system that lets you work with files and weblinks depending on 
how they're related, not where they are in the filesystem.  Unfortunately 
it's only for Windows, but there's at least one OSS clone in development 
(one's called Synapse and there's another one for KDE called something like 
Kognition that was proposed a while back; some worries about patents on that 
one I think).

>I havn't quite figured it out, but how about something less linear, a more
>abstract representation of information _integrated_ into the desktop?
A Brain-type app running on the root window - that would be very nice 
indeed.

dr geek


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