Yesterday I read an article by Tognazzini in which he
describes an interface idea I really like. He also says it's
patented by Apple, so there's probably nothing that can be
done to bring it about. Naturally, Apple never did anything
with it...

	The idea is to have "piles" of documents as part of the GUI.
A pile's icon gives some information has to how many documents are
in it -- none, one or two, many. Dropping documents onto the
pile adds them to it. Clicking on the pile brings up a list of its
contents and lets the user select one to open.

	I would love this, especially if the piles looked different
according to their contents -- stacks of paper for most things, but
reels of film (or videocassettes) for animations, stacks of CDs for
MP3 files...

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						crawford@iac.net

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