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Originally Posted by Francesco
This list skips one step: get rid of all the junk.
I don't know about you, guys, but most, and I mean MOST, of the papers I've kept for years have information that is useless, outdated, or very very important, but, since I don't ever check what's in those heaps of papers, it becomes useless, as well.
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That's a good point. Funny thing is that it's worse for me in electronic form, so I have to just depend on decent organization of directories. I guess with paper files I end up throwing out the junk about once a year (usually when space gets tight!)
The more I think about it, the more I wonder if we might be at the point that early adopters might start to go all digital in the next 5 yrs. I'm not too far from giving it a go myself.
The new relational WinFS coming eventually might even help to manage all that content. There's gotta be some better way to manage information and keep "metadata" while staying with "core" technology so it's permanently useful. For example, are comments that Windows supports for files a reasonable way to put info about the file that will be supported by apps and usable in 20 years from now? Things like filenames will still be around (or easily converted). But programs that catalog your files (like mp3 collections) probably don't store that info in a way that's lasting.
And once storage is more abundant, won't we be storing music in a different format anyway? Compression won't be so important at some point.
Sorry, there I go thinking out loud again in some sort of free flow exercise....