[IAEP] Journal criticism

[James Simmons]

Lucian,

Other than the criticisms I mentioned in my email, I like the Journal.  
Even after years of working with PCs I still find myself occasionally 
saving something to the hard drive, then wondering where I saved it.  My 
parents probably won't ever really master working with hierarchical file 
systems, and it's probably a difficult concept for children to master.  
Even Microsoft recognizes the need to have standard folders like "My 
Documents", "My Pictures", etc.

Hierarchical file systems made a lot of sense in the DOS world with 8 
character file and directory names.  However, if you have a Journal that 
can have long titles, free form notes, screenshots of what the Activity 
looked like when it closed, icons indicating what Journal entry belongs 
to what Activity, other icons indicating that a Journal entry was the 
result of a shared Activity, etc. then you don't really need to group 
things into folders.  The Journal gives you better ways to organize your 
work.

It may grow on you.  Give it a chance.

James Simmons


Lucian Branescu wrote:
> I'm new to Sugar, so I may be horribly wrong.
>
> But to me, the Journal seems more of an annoyance than anything else.
> A lot of the work I see done is towards bringing back some of the
> properties that regular filesystems have
>
> What advantage does it have as opposed to a regular filesystem with
> support for versioning and metadata? A filesystem would be more
> compatible with existing software (which could just ignore the
> metadata), at least.