Re: [Usability] Automagic cleanup of home folder

[Nadyne Mielke <nmielke acm org>]

At 06:03 AM 1/26/2004, Maarten Menheere wrote:

[snip]

> I agree but sometimes this just doesn't work. I've told my parents to
> clean up their stuff loads of times (hmm this sounds weird :) ). And you
> haven't seen my desk, I'm still looking for that autodesk cleaning
> robot. If you are able to make things easier than you should IMHO.

Lotus Notes does something similar to what you're suggesting.  Documents 
expire from Notes, although the expiration is a simple one: all documents 
expire, no matter how often you use (edit, open, etc) them.  You can save 
documents, but you have to move them off of the Notes server and save them 
elsewhere (an external file, a local Notes database, etc).

Personally, this is one of my biggest gripes about Notes.  I've lost 
documents to the expiration that I needed later.  Yeah, it warned me, but 
its warning isn't optimal.  (It warns you on start-up, and 30 days in 
advance.  This is lovely, except that I always leave Notes open.  So if I 
can't handle it when it comes up, it's forgotten.)

/nm