Re: Most used and Recently Used [was Re: [Usability] New way of accessing software (WAS: Re: Big Panel menus (32x32))]

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Alan Horkan writes: 

> > Wouldn't be cool if recent documents (and even appplications maybe) was an
> > autogenerated list based on a filesystem metadata search of the 10 most
> > recently used files by a user. (/me has been dreaming of reiserfs's
> > potential here).
>
> What David suggests would undoubtedly be useful but I want to make
> absolutely clear that he is talking about _most_used_ where as in the near
> future I would very much like to see _recently_used_ which is useful in
> quite a differnt way. 

Actually what I was suggesting is using (non-existant in most filesystems) 
filesystem metadata to store information about when a file was last accessed 
by a specific user, and using this information to generate most recently 
used, most oftenly used. etc. 

I think i'm just daydreaming out loud :p 

dave