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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 30, 2008 at 09:02 PM
Mark, thanks for the prompt reply.
-MAF- wrote:
>We intentionally limited the number of layers – too many make finding the stuff you’re
>looking for too difficult, or time-consuming. We targeted a two to three click
>average for finding what you’re looking for.**
I think most of us here would consider this approach seriously limiting. People with uncomplicated information might find 2-3 layers sufficient. But my own file system has a minimum of seven layers, as does my folder hierarchy in the UltraRecall tree. Zoot, a most capable information manager is considered limiting for allowing no more than 250 folders per database.
The Family > Daughter > Health > Vaccinations hierarchy is not desirable for reasons of space, but rather of focus. For me, that’s the whole point of having folders within folders. Otherwise my folders would look like small desktops with unrelated information. The fact that all the items might have to do with my daughter doesn’t mean I would like to keep them together.
Perhaps the example wasn’t the best. Here’s another, closer to reality (as I actually don’t have children yet :-)
Work (Station) > Customers (Channel) > CSR Ltd (Topic)
I might easily have several projects running with the same customer. Each project might include several sub-projects. For example, one of our customers is a charity, with several corporate sponsors, with each of which we are doing a separate sub-project. Keeping everything related to a customer together would be utterly confusing.
I think you should reconsider the ‘thematic dimension’ of Noah’s organisational capability, so that it matches the power of the temporal one. For example, one could zoom in and out into the themes, much as one zooms in and out in time.
>**Version 2.0 will allow you to place documents
>directly on the Topic line.
Definitely looking forward to this, which would allow for example to monitor deliverables on several projects from the same window.
alx