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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: The filesystem plus browser as Agenda/Chandler
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:04:18 -0800
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To: Leo Comerford <lrc1@st-andrews.ac.uk>
Cc: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>, reiserfs-list@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.
>
>In particular, see
>
>http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000092.html
>
>.
>
>"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)
>
>The other mappings are left as an exercise: they're astonishingly (and
>amusingly) precise.
>
>Leo.
>--
>Leo Richard Comerford - http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~lrc1 - accept no namesakes :)
>
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