Preferring a minimal look (and being immature) my desktop shortcuts for "This PC" and "Recycle Bin" have been renamed with two of the many invisible characters that windows allows.
I also routinely use single extended unicode characters as root folder names and identifiers for various purposes.
Using a search programme 'Everything", it's a lot easier to find things if I use something like pilcrow symbol as the root folder for any directory dedicated to text documents, when the alternative is to wade through results for 'documents', 'text', 'reading' or any combination of those words.
For the same reason, I find I can make much more memorable associations. It helps me harness things relationally. I can preserve uncertainty and avoid the frustration and negativity of trying to make shades of grey and rose fit black and white patterns. It does sound a bit new age, but there's no doubt in my mind, flat heirachical alphanumeric patterns are restrictive, prescriptive, insufficient. For example, a lot of artists actively work to defy pidgeon holing. I still need identifiers.
I mean, even if I wasn't into 'bleeding edge' culture, restrictions, problems and frustrations are the normal experience. I think this is illustrated by the unsatisfactory experiences that people find when they try to make id3 tagging "work".
It's as close as I can get to banishing the pervasive 'what-if' heartbreak of WinFS being cancelled. Sadly it doesn't help at all make up for what 'Semantic Web' promised. But that's probably why I'm a believer in GPT and the like.
Is it just me that can't help thinking they are products that have arisen from the need to make non-semantic computing useful again?
I also routinely use single extended unicode characters as root folder names and identifiers for various purposes.
Using a search programme 'Everything", it's a lot easier to find things if I use something like pilcrow symbol as the root folder for any directory dedicated to text documents, when the alternative is to wade through results for 'documents', 'text', 'reading' or any combination of those words.
For the same reason, I find I can make much more memorable associations. It helps me harness things relationally. I can preserve uncertainty and avoid the frustration and negativity of trying to make shades of grey and rose fit black and white patterns. It does sound a bit new age, but there's no doubt in my mind, flat heirachical alphanumeric patterns are restrictive, prescriptive, insufficient. For example, a lot of artists actively work to defy pidgeon holing. I still need identifiers.
I mean, even if I wasn't into 'bleeding edge' culture, restrictions, problems and frustrations are the normal experience. I think this is illustrated by the unsatisfactory experiences that people find when they try to make id3 tagging "work".
It's as close as I can get to banishing the pervasive 'what-if' heartbreak of WinFS being cancelled. Sadly it doesn't help at all make up for what 'Semantic Web' promised. But that's probably why I'm a believer in GPT and the like.
Is it just me that can't help thinking they are products that have arisen from the need to make non-semantic computing useful again?