[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.