The Register ("Biting the hand that feeds IT") has a report on "Deep inside Apple's Piles. Forgotten UI innovation to be exhumed?" Piles is an alternative to the hierarchical file/folder system, based on work done by Gitta Salomon et al. at Apple back in the early 1990's. Despite the unfortunate name, this seems like an interesting system.
The story was also posted on IASlash over a week ago: Piles of Documents. They have a bit more detail, plus a link to the HCIBib citation for the original article by Salamon in the comments.
Posted by dcplumer at April 22, 2003 11:18 PM