I really did write a letter.
About a year ago I sent off a letter to Google suggesting that though they couldn't
take over my hard drive, they might be able to let me tag items that came up in
my searches via Google desktop. It seemed to me quite logical that when the results
of a search would show up on my screen, in addition to options like viewing cached
versions of an item, or opening the folder in which that item was stored, I could
also be offered a checkbox that let me tag that item and then enter the name of
the tag I wanted. In this way, slowly but surely I'd be able to tag items on my
hard drive. What's more, since the items I'd be tagging were the ones I'd been
looking for, I'd actually only be dealing with items that I had greater chances
of wanting to find again sometime in the future.
But I'm still waiting for Google to implement this. In the meantime, though
I am able to tag (label) my gmail, I've only defined about twenty labels for
almost 2500 items of mail, and those labels don't access even ten percent of
my mail. Search has, once again, trumped any other system of filing.
Go to: If I hadn't done so already, or
Go to: But you can, you can!