How to PoIC on Leopard
Digital is approaching to analog? Apple’s new operating system for Macintosh, Leopard, is now available. The new “Cover Flow” feature realizes missing analog feeling on digital. It’s more like flipping index cards in a dock.
This is an idea to implement PoIC on Leopard. What we need is only three folders (folders at right in picture below).
- Chronological Stack: This is a collection phase. The folder corresponds to digital version of PoIC’s “Dock”. Let’s take advantage of new “Cover Flow” view for this folder to realize more “flipping files” feeling (window at left in the picture). Sort by “creation date” here to achieve “Chronological Order”. This is yet imperfect because I don’t know how to modify “Creation Date” of the downloaded files.
- Task Force: This is a processing phase. Organize a bundle of files for a project. I employ “Icon” view here (window next to 1). I set window width to become two column. The left column represents a list of current projects to be processed. If I am working or I worked on the day, the project’s folders are moved to right column. Icon view is more intuitive to see what is “on” and what is “off”. The position of folders is reset every morning.
- Ex-service: Get Things Done! Finished projects go to this folder. Use “List” or “Cover Flow” view (window at bottom). Sort by modified date to see when project is finished. Some color label might be useful as well to express yet alive (e.g. yellow) or dead project (e.g. gray).
Unit of information in a file system is larger and more complex than index cards. So PoIC’s rule (no classify, no search, no revision) must be loosen for file system. In fact, I classify papers by author’s name, I use “Spotlight” frequently for searching files on computer.
As an feedback from analog world to digital world.
時系列スタック・タスクフォース編成・お役御免の三段階をデジタルに応用してみる。
