Embedded Files
Seeing becomes understanding combined with meaning. We use colours to define a range of traits to tell you about your files.
Colour Modes
Colour Modes
Colour code each file and folder by depth, size, type, age or ratio.
Deeper files are hue shifted. Traditionally, in order to find things, it is recommended to keep folders reasonably shallow.
Today, that is less of a problem, however total file path length is still a hard limit.
File size is shown on a log scale because the range of file sizes spans orders of magnitude. Smaller files are darker, to make them easier to see.
Last Modified Date is also shown on a log graph. The results of this graph are often surprising. What was I doing 8 years ago?
Folder Efficacy is a measure of how empty or overloaded a folder is. Data supports the idea that we have the ability to hold on average only 7 unique thoughts in mind at any one time. It follows that the best management of folders uses a similar figure. Beyond that, it can be more difficult to find what you're after in a single space, and you should consider creating a subfolder.
File types are self evident - only the top 10 types are colour coded, otherwise it gets rather too confusing.
Filters
Filters
Any of the graphs above can be used as a means to select the files and folders that you are interested in. Just click and drag on the column charts, or pick a file type.
Whenever you select a file or group of files, the Filter and Filter Out buttons appear.
These enable you to focus on those items or hide them temporarily from your view. No edits are made to your files, this only affects the view.
You can also quite quickly reverse the process, picking the red x to remove individual filters, or the Remove Filter button to reset everything to it's original state.
Controls
Controls
Here's where it starts to get really interesting. So far we've dealt with seeing your information. Understanding it. But what do we do when we've found something we want to improve?
The "Organise" function allows you to create new folders, rename or delete existing items, and drag items into new locations. You're protected against dragging a folder into one of its own sub-folders. Let's not get ourselves into any recursion troubles now.
And don't worry, all of your changes get handled in a buffer - you will need to click apply when you are happy with the edits you've made.
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