I also believe that tags and projects could be unified --
or more exactly, that tags and types should be unified, project beeing
simply one particular type. Actually.. perhaps not unified in that
types == tags, but in that the "smart folders" can work on both types
and tags (and other meta data too I guess, like the date, etc.)
Types == tags, only that types are not determined by the user. An
object's type defines it and cannot change but tags are user
defined. I think making the distinction is ok because a user has no
control of an object's type.
It would be inconsistent to be able to change some tags and not
others.
It could also be misleading if it appeared that a user could change
a file's type by removing the "file type" tag
Yeah -- File Type should be on the same level as, say, Creation Date:
metadata that is intrinsic to the Document itself. So, as far as
metadata, we have:
Intrinsic/Automatic
- Type (I think we can take a cue from the Spotlight screenshot and
use basically those types: http://images.macrumors.com/article/
2007/04/12/Spotlight.jpg )
- UTI (like type, but less human-readable)
- Creator
- Creation Date
- Last Modification Date
- Last Accessed/Opened Date
- File size
- Other users/devices sharing this Document
- Projects this Document exists within
User-specified
- Tags
- Important (per Gmail's 'star')
Intrinsic/Automatic and User-specified
- Other objects/documents this is related to (per Brian's 'Related'
section here: http://brian.muhumuza.googlepages.com/
working_with_objects.html )
Am I missing any other ones?
J.
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