[logic]

Your point about the system watching what you do and doing something useful with that information reminded me of some work a few years back by Nat Friedman on "Dashboard" that had me pretty excited at the time: http://nat.org/dashboard/

It was a shame to not actually see that go anywhere other than the prototype stage.

[ThomPete]

That sure is a shame as it seems like it would be pretty useful.

There need to be more thinking going into non-interaction. Actually having to interact with the computer as much as we do about the things we do, surely can't be the goal in itself.

I want my machine to make plenty of choices for me and present me with information not have me do it manually. I think that is what pisses me off the most right now.

There is something wrong and primitive about normal human beings still having to interact with their machines to get proper information.

[dkersten]

This idea is something I've talked about many times with various people. Even posted about it on stackoverflow and blogged about it once. Computers are better at boring and mundane maintenance tasks than we are - so they should do them. Users shouldn't have to think about such low level concepts as filesystems, directory structures, saving files and so on. It should be managed behind the scenes.

[ams6110]

I think anything beyond the simplest of automatic organization schemes will end up being confusing. I like to organize my files the way I want them organized. I can probably deal with all my pictures showing up under "My Pictures" but if it starts to try to do something like classify my documents by content it's going to depart from what I think "makes sense" pretty quickly.