It drives me crazy to have to take step backwards when I'm in Google Docs. Folders? Really? I hate having to chose where I'm going to store a document, PDF or spreadsheet that applies to multiple subjects/projects. The last thing that goes though my mind as I click Move to Folder is "I'll never see that document again".
Search works well (except it can't search the text in a PDF). I could take the time to set up "saved searches" instead of folders and tag my items in the actual documents. Then a saved search (which is what labels are in Gmail) would work. But that's a manual tedious process, which also requires me to create a "tags:" line at the top or bottom of my document (which has to be deleted before emailing or printing). Then I have to manually create a saved search anytime I make up a new label. No thanks.
I don't understand why people like folders better than labels, but I get that some people do. Can't we just have both in this situation? It's really just a few steps from being available. You have "Folders" and you have "Saved Searches" already set up. Allow me to use folders if I want, but also allow me to tag or label an item somewhere and have that tag automatically create a saved search for itself. Then I 'll just use the saved search functions in gDocs.
Or does someone know a good way to fake labels in gDocs?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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