Concept

A simple, hierarchical, spatial organization system.

Can be used in...

• Wiki
• Filesystem
• Web browser
• Music collection
• TV collection

Features

• The mouse cursor can become a bucket, and pick up other buckets.
• Each bucket can contain objects, or other buckets.
• Objects and buckets can have special "view styles" attached to them. (Bits of code that display them in special ways.)
  • Applying a view style to a video file could turn it into a playing video.

  • Applying a view style to a bucket could display and arrange music files to look like an album cover (see Projects/Automatic_Information_Layout_System).

  • View styles can even analyze the contents of the bucket and produce new views (i.e. a spetrograph for MP3s)
• Hinted Layouts
  • Heuristics for handling different kinds of content
• Navigation
  • Searches
  • Telescoping zoom (quickly drilling into nested things)