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From: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder post-its?
Keywords: Finder, notes
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Date: 2 May 90 19:08:02 GMT
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In article <10678@sun.udel.edu>, salamon@sun.udel.edu (Andrew Salamon) writes:
>
> I always thought it would be usefull to have something in the finder
that worked
> like a folder (i.e. opened fast, copy, move etc.) except that it
contained text
> instead of icons.  Something like a post-it note.  It wouldn't need any more 

Superb idea! I have wanted this for a long time. If we are dreaming, perhaps
I might suggest a grander scheme:

Allow us to attach a post-it note to anything in the Finder (folder, file,
etc) and indicate it with a micro-icon such as an '*' in the upper left
or right corner of the actual icon. A command-click on an icon would open
its own post-it note (new or existing). This would be like the README
files in older operating systems, only better. We would also want
standalone post-its as Andrew Salamon suggested.

And how about a simple DA to word-search and time-of-creation/modification
search these post-its, give us list of the first lines of post-its that
matched the search, from which we could view or edit a post-it of interest.

We could then setup folders of related post-its ("phone messages",
"things to do", "meeting notes", etc.) And we could attach post-its to
applications and folders that explain (more thoroughly than just the
filename could) what they are for, known problems ("doesn't work under
MultiFinder").

If this were simple enough and fast enough, could it be the ultimate
"personal info system" that finally gets even us regular computer users
away from still-present-despite-those-old-predictions scraps of paper
and notebooks cluttering up our desks?


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