Another exciting development which may change the way we work with documents and the desktop forever

I'd be fascinated to try this out. Rather than a file structure a
timeline becomes how documents are stored. Ancillary information, e.g.
the website or research paper I was looking at at the time, are also
recorded. This would be really handy for the way I work which can often
be chaotic. I don't always have the time to remember what I was reading
at the time which is why I use this blog as a notepad. This way to
interact with documents would make life a lot easer and more intuitive
once I'd learned to use it.

http://lab.rekimoto.org/projects/timemachine/

Time-Machine Computing

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Imagine that your computer has a dial for time-traveling. With such a
computer, when you create a document you can simply leave it on the
desktop. You can also remove documents at any time. If you later need to
refer the previously created information, you can time-travel to the day
when that document was on the desktop. You might also see other related
information that were simultaneously placed on the computer screen, and
these items would help you to recall the activity context at that time.
We named such time-centric approach Time-Machine Computing , or TMC.

"TimeScape" is an experimental desktop environment based on the TMC
concept. With this environment, a user only have to deal with a single
desktop surface without being bothered with folder hierarchies. The user
can always remove unnecessary files from the desktop, and a variety of
interaction/visualization techniques supports a user to navigate over a
time-dimension.
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