Million Dollar Idea number 007, no relationship to Bond

Sometimes you have two computer files that you want to group together. With Windows, Mac OS X, and all the Unix-like operating systems I know of, your only option is to put them into a directory or folder. I think that's lame for just two documents. Extending the metaphor, how about a paper clip? Both the documents would always show up very close to each other graphically, and wherever one moved, the other would follow, until you unclipped them. Unlike documents in folders, you could see both of them at the same time. If you don't like that idea, how about folder icons that get fatter when they have more (and/or bigger?) documents inside them?

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Posted by: officiallyover on 3/14/2006 1:04:01 AM , 0 comments

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Think of it as HAL's red eyeball, silently watching you: