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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder post-its?
Keywords: Finder, notes
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Date: 2 May 90 21:53:21 GMT
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In article <20551@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU
(Richard Fozzard) writes:
> 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").
For some time, I've felt a real deficiency of the Mac is the need to open
a document to see what's in it. My solution would be to extent the standard
open to include a pane showing the first page (or whatever, depending on
document type) of the currently selected document. For a folder, the pane
would show the list of items inside (if you've seen Smalltalk, maybe this
will sound a bit familar). The problem with all this is it would require
patching all existing applications before it became reasonably useful.

However, imagine this: making posted notes visible when a document is selected
in Open. Maybe a simple prototype could be done, which patched SFgetfile,
and displayed the finder Info ("Get Info") in a pane below the file list.
Anyone keen to do this?

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu