The idiom of files and folders is part of the daily computer experience. It proofed to be a very efficient and successful solution for file management. The concept of that system is from a time where the requirements for a file handling tool where quite different in comparison to today. There are some situations/tasks in which the very flexible system of files and folders creates an unnecessary redundancy which result in a time consuming and attention sucking interaction. One of these tasks is the documenting of received and send out files. In the real world everybody needs to organize the inbox and outbox in a consistent and effective manner. How is that realized in todays computer systems and does the idiom of files and folders do a good job here?

File and Folder organization are part of the daily computer experience. These structures are created and maintained by the user. The basic idiom of saving and opening files has not change through the time and probably most computer users take this system for granted. The following article would like to suggest a new file and folder idiom called projects. These projects should reduce the time users spent on dealing with the organization of files and folders.

In Mac OS 10.4 Apple introduced a new search called Spotlight. This search engine is based on crawling through an index of meta data. Most of this data is automatically retrieved in the background through the daily use of Mac OS X. This article would like to address an inefficiency with the current implementation of entering spotlight comments manually.

In 1984 the Macintosh was released with Mac OS 1 which had two different views for the computers file structure–Icon and List view. Around 20 years later Apples Mac OS X provides, besides the browser alike column view, two different views of the users file structure–Icon and List view.
Isn’t there something more? Aren’t todays users confronted with a lot of more files than in 1984? This article would like to suggest a refinement for the current list view implementation.