Have you hear the news ? If you ’re not spending a vast portion of your life history organizing your stuff , you ’re die as a human being .
We ’re inundated with cable - television set shows that purport to save hoi polloi ’s lives by get them organize ; one C of books about clearing clutter ; whole store and catalogs devote to silly organizing supplies ; and infomercials created by professional PDA . Your significant other may even consider that the disorganised biography is not worth living . We ’re all panic-stricken of lose that one important document — and justly so . It can be annihilative , even just for the 15 minute it take to look for it .
Well , do n’t believe the hype . You really can be organized , when it comes to your Mac ’s files , anyway , and you do n’t need to expend every weekend on it .
I ’ve been exercise not being organize ( while appear mostly organized ) for years now . Some of my favorite tools areObjective Development’sLaunchBar ( for not filing my documents ) , Microsoft’sEntourageand AppleMail(for not filing e - post ) , and freeform database like Chronos’StickyBrainandCircus Ponies’NoteBook ( for not filing URLs , or almost anything else ) . I rarely lose an electronic written document . Go in the lead , try me .
Those programs help to a certain extent , but they all have their defect — and they should ferment together somehow . With the spill of Mac OS X 10.4 , which include a bully caper called public eye , finding that one document , photo , or atomic number 99 - mail — now — is give out to get a whole portion easier . As with the many nifty approximation Apple has reproduced and shined to a gamey gloss , this time the single file - less system may actually becharm on . We may have a legitimate mode to not be organized .
But will Apple ’s “ no filing ” computer software really fly ? If the thought of not putting things in their right folder fills you with apprehensiveness , you ’re probably not alone . Computer user have been using the file brochure metaphor for a long time now . And the human brain like give an organizing rule , a way to categorize the selective information in our life . A helter-skelter heap of files in our Documents folder may affright us , until we ’re really up and running with Spotlight , and we stop even take to wait in our Documents folders .
Can you think that ? I ’m uncoerced to try it . How about you ?
