Re: The filesystem plus browser as Agenda/Chandler

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

You are welcome to convince him to use reiser4....;-)

hans

Leo Comerford wrote:

>Speaking of handling email, wanting maximum power, and (not) using
>databases which aren't integrated into the filesystem namespace: note
>that the thin GUI on top of a filesystem of predicate- and
>link-directories with pathname-listing is, among other things,
>Chandler (the promised son-of-Lotus-Agenda) done right.
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>In particular, see
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>http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000092.html
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>"attributes and their values"                --> /foo/bar/baz
>"relationships to other items"               --> /foo/fum:aaardvark/foo etc.
>"payload"                                    --> file body
>"show views of [things] organized by [foo]"  --> ls foo (note no distinction
>                                                 between d-to-m and m-to-d
>                                                 metadata)
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>The other mappings are left as an exercise: they're astonishingly (and
>amusingly) precise.
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>Leo.
>--
>Leo Richard Comerford - http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~lrc1 - accept no namesakes :)
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