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Submitted:  Jul 19 2006
Updated:  Jul 21 2006

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I had this idea while putting together some files on my desktop to be ready to be sent out in an email.

The ability to "paperclip" together different documents "files" in a relational manner, indicated by a paperclip icon/emblem on the grouping.
this would allow items to be sorted, manipulated, and stored in a real world like manner. This is especially helpful when in the beginning of a project when your in the information gathering and sorting stages. Any thoughts?




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 by d3f3nd3r on: Jul 20 2006  
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In my humble opinion, which is all this thread was anyway; folders are the most unintuitive way to organize data.

Sure they have their place (in a filing cabinet) but I am stretching my brain a little bit here and trying to look past what is and what could be.

If I open up my file manager to my home directory (folder in essence) today I would see what? Yes, you guessed it more folders, or iconic representations of files or perhaps thumb nailed previews of files.

But all those files are independent of one another and have no relational meaning when browsing, but if I could meaningfully group those sets of files that relate in some way to each other so now when I open my file manager I have clusters or groupings of files that represent the way I want my data grouped then I have a means of manipulating my files.

Expanding upon this idea even further what if the paperclip or whatever you want to call it was the container that held the metadata relating to all those individual files and you only had to add or subtract files linked to it. Then you could right click on the clip and Expose’ the files like you can open windows, or perhaps cycle through them ala alt/tab style using your mouse wheel to scroll back and forth through the files.

I concede that while these groupings in effect would be no different from a folder per say but the subconscious feedback they provide is drastically different. I'm back at work again this morning and in my inbox I have a stack of papers 3-4 inches high some of these documents are emails, printed 3D model drawings, screenshots of different 3D model views and reports from other departments (all separated by a clip or stapled together even though they are not the same type of document).

It would also be nice to be able to stamp or mark this stack of files Received, Complete, or with some other type of indicator to give me a visual clue to the state of that group of files.

Sure I could create a folder naming it by the serial number of the part, but all I really want to do is group the corresponding documents for that model design together and to be able to manipulate them as a whole.

I hope I’m not beating a dead horse here.


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 my thougths

 
 by eiroteva on: Jul 20 2006  
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I don't think this kind of arranging of data would be for permanent sorting. However it would be great for short-term sorting/combining of data.

Let's say a case were I'm working on a project of some kind. I would go to my home directory some place and make a new folder for that, then inside that folder I would have all the things. One night I go over it and find 3 out of 15 files that needs to be thoroughly reviewed. I clip those three together and bring my laptop to the school the next day. Now I can easily see which 3 files needed reviewing.

I think I could think of a few thousands of other cases if it hadn't been for the dinner downstairs.


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 rel. dbase...

 
 by thomas12777 on: Jul 22 2006  
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this would be an allmost natural sideeffect when organizing files in a relational database (as tenor on KDE4)
the clip is than a uninque tag on the clipped files and the UI can present it as a nifty paperclip icon

best file a wish for kiconview on bugs.kde.org (needs to show the clip, maybe offer a function to show up the clip stack)


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