I'm squinting at the pictures and wondering. How on earth is this thing going to handle real projects? You know, where you have like twenty different kinds of files all related to the same project, which should be grouped together because they're about the same thing, even though they're in different apps.
I mean, here's what I find in the directory for my current comics project:
a bunch of Illustrator files (this is what I draw it in)
a few CBZs of the content
some PDFs of the same content
a bunch of web-res gifs of the pages
some Indesign files (related to publishing the book)
a couple .csv files used in an Indesign data merge
various other gifs/jpgs/tiffs
a Word doc
a link to an external directory full of print-res TIFFs
Plus a subdirectory structure to chunk all of this into stuff related to book production, model sheets, fan art, and whatnot.
This is the use case where every "We're going to replace and simplify the file browser!" effort seems to fall down. Recognizing that real people's projects sprawl across many file formats.
average people (who don't have projects and illustrator files).
Sure they do. They might not have illustrator files, but they have aggregated mixes of text files, spreadsheets, images, videos, etc grouped by projects - which might be as humble as organizing their kids' party, but it might also be something very professional in a non-technology area - there's more to life than boring, repetitive jobs and high-tech professionals.
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I'm squinting at the pictures and wondering. How on earth is this thing going to handle real projects? You know, where you have like twenty different kinds of files all related to the same project, which should be grouped together because they're about the same thing, even though they're in different apps.
I mean, here's what I find in the directory for my current comics project:
Plus a subdirectory structure to chunk all of this into stuff related to book production, model sheets, fan art, and whatnot.This is the use case where every "We're going to replace and simplify the file browser!" effort seems to fall down. Recognizing that real people's projects sprawl across many file formats.
My understanding is that it's intended (for the most part) for average people (who don't have projects and illustrator files).
If you want to be a "power" user, use Finder (or Path Finder) - you're not the intended audience for this "app" (nor am I).
average people (who don't have projects and illustrator files).
Sure they do. They might not have illustrator files, but they have aggregated mixes of text files, spreadsheets, images, videos, etc grouped by projects - which might be as humble as organizing their kids' party, but it might also be something very professional in a non-technology area - there's more to life than boring, repetitive jobs and high-tech professionals.
We totally agree. Wait for what is coming ;)
I think I signed up for more info so okay!