Reading slashdot today I came across a link to a project called Beagle. It looks really interesting and something that would benifit people like my mom or others who don't care to understand how things get stored on the computer. They have some nice demos that show beagle in action on the site that are done in flash. Worth checking out if your interested... Installing it is a little more work as the filesystem needs to support extended attributes and possible inotify (in order to have it pick up changes to files instantly). Extended attributes aren't hard to setup, but inotify does require a patch to the kernel at this point. I think I may give this a try later if I can find the time.

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