Giles Turnbull talks about Tiger’s Spotlight and how it drastically changes the way people work with files.
when I heard Brian talking to another journalist: “The first thing you start doing is cease using hierarchy as a means of storing stuff. I know this, because I’ve been using this for a few months and I don’t bother to file things anymore. I don’t give a rat’s ass where my files are, because Spotlight finds everything for me.” That’s the crucial, boiled-to-the-bone reality of something like Spotlight. If it really is capable of finding what you need, why bother keeping your stuff in any kind of order?
I have had a similar experience when I switched to DevonThink for File archival, especially for saving all those snippets and publications I come across in daily work and surfing. If Spotlight can keep my other files in order - I want Tiger ASAP. Now and if that is the end to the crappy Finder, so be it.
Just wondering: what will DevonThink be like after version 2.0 - when they switch to a file based database - as well as interact with Spotlight? I believe this will be even better than just Tiger - but I want it now as well
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