If an app is capable of working with a file, it should be able to see it. I don't care where my files are stored, as long as I can access them when I need to. When OSX implemented Spotlight searches I stopped bothering to organize anything. iTunes organizes all my music for me, iPhone organizes all my photos for me, everything else just lives in Downloads or Documents. I can find anything just by typing the first few letters of what I'm looking for. I don't miss obsessively categorizing my files in hierarchal folders one bit. Apps being aware of what files they can use just takes this one step further, and really just optimizes my workflow even more.
I never managed to get into Spotlight. Why would I request Spotlight returns 50+ results for a word I type when I know exactly which file I want? I don't want to see all the unrelated crap it thinks might be of value just because it shares the same word, I want to go to the one document I'm looking for. If it's in a folder, I can get to it without Spotlight telling me I'm looking for an album by Led Zeppelin when actually I just wanted to check my latest bank statement. Reliance on Spotlight just says lack of organizational skills to me, it's really not time consuming at all. Optimizing workflow is one of those phrases you find in business meetings that are thrown around because they sound impressive, when in reality spending an extra second or two to navigate a few folders never held anyone back in the slightest. For most people, saving two seconds on your workflow just means you're gonna spend longer on your lunchbreak feeding your fat ass meatball subs and Mountain Dew. As for iTunes' organization skills, in wouldn't throw up over it. Why in the world it insitsts on adding every useless bit of media to my library just because I listen to it once is beyond me. No, the IBM jingle isn't part of my music collection, stop adding crap please. I save time using a folder structure because messing about with MP3 tags in order to get iTunes to display albums and artists where it's supposed to is counter-productive and takes even longer.
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Spotlight on an SSD when used with something like LaunchBar is actually incredibly fast. I can barely use a computer without it. I never have any issues finding what I'm looking for, and it's just nice to have one less thing to worry about. I guess I see my computer a little differently in that it's a tool for me to do work, make a living, and get off of it as soon as I can. Every second I spend dicking around organizing files, or anything secondary to completing the task at hand, is a second I could be doing something more fulfilling with my life.
I can't wait until the day directories and finder explorer systems are gone. iTunes has proven a computer can organize your files 1000 times better than any human can, not to mention the time saved by not having to do it yourself. All we really need is one big hidden file repository with some nice search options. The necessary search options don't yet exist, but as soon as I can say, "this picture from April that is part of this project" and have the result pop-up instantly, Finder will be dead.
Don't understand. Did they announce they are gonna remove something in Lion? If they didn't, I don't think anyone expected a new update anyway, so Lion is sorta like a cherry and here we are complaining about an app store. We don't have to use it, if we don't want to. Lion seems fine to me, I'm not gonna buy it. I didn't even upgrade to Snow Leopard. But I can't wait for the day when they update the UI. I'd be all over that
Why wouldn't you upgrade to Snow Leopard? It's $15 and has so many benefits that it's probably the best bang for the buck overall upgrade you could get for your Mac... Especially at $15.
Well, there were some valid reasons to hold off. I think it broke AppleJack (again) although that does appear to have been fixed now.
