[mattgreen]

Agreed - I feel that as we have more filters, customisable searches, auto-folder moving and so-on then we're actually creating a big headache of curation, categorisation and taxonomy-creation for the end recipient.

What would be great IMO is for some of this to happen a little bit more automatically with the option for me to give the system feedback as to how well it did with it's filtering attempts. This would allow me to, over time, state my intentions (e.g. I really only want to be bothered with REAL problems) rather than implement the mechanisms to do so. I often feel I work for the machine - not the other way round.

[sprobertson]

Yeah I quite like the idea of using machine-learned automation to do categorization and filtering of information for us. It seems that this is an ideal role for the computer, an extension to the mind doing the hard/tedious work of curation and classification so we can just sit back and observe.