Organising files on a calendar view / Another take on the file system repository

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 31, 2008 at 05:07 PM

Some time ago we had discussed Noah ( http://www.gen-9.net/ ) which organises e-mails and files on a timeline.

I have just come across Nemo ( http://www.iola.dk/nemo/ ) which combines fie manager and calendar. The program is under development and Linux only, but there are several screen shots on the site to give you an idea of the concept, which I found quite interesting.

As noted elsewhere some time ago, I expect information managers to be able to provide me with different views of the same data—e.g. folders, chronological, category etc- rather than trying to impose a specific organisational paradigm upon me.

In this regard, the file system seems to be the most versatile repository. Files exist in folders, but they can be shown in various layouts, e.g. hierarchical, flat view (Directory Opus, Ultra Explorer), Miller columns (Ultra Explorer), calendar (Nemo) etc. In addition, they can be associated with each other multidimensionally through links in many of the information managers we discuss (Personal Brain is perhaps the most typical example). Last but not least, all of these approaches do not in anyway restrict each other—contrary to the limitations of keeping information _within_ proprietary information manager databases. The file system rules!

And a Happy New Year to everyone :-)