Folks:

I still struggle for the perfect organizational system. Haven't found it yet. However, through the struggle, I tend to find interesting information nonetheless. I happened on a book called "Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments" and bought it. It is quite interesting, though of a rather academic bent. The book is a series of chapters from different authors describing different efforts to provide a computer environment that is conducive to information use. Gelernter describes his Lifestreams system, Karger talks about Haystack, and others talk about other systems and their strengths. Very interesting. You can pick it up at Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Desktop-Metaphor-Integrated-Environments/dp/026211304X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243789705&sr=1-1

Jim

Jim, very interesting; thanks for the heads-up!

Alexander

Jim,

Thanks for suggesting this book. I finally read it. Very interesting and, when you come right down to it, a breakdown of what many of us are struggling with here.

I'll return the favor and recommend one myself. Dreaming in Code is a pretty good book about the struggles of Mitch Kapor and his development team to develop Chandler. Very insightful, I thought.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software/dp/1400082471/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251896962&sr=8-1

Tom S.