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An arrow pointing into a folder, similar to this. Sidesteps the tech issue altogether.
I mean, you're just replacing one archaic symbol with another.
I still use folders to organize paper documents. Taxes and medical stuff mostly.
Normal people call computer directories 'folders'.
Which predate computers and floppy disks
I agree. I heard recently a lot of kids under 20 grew up in an iPhone, iPad, and chrome world and never learned “folder” or directory concepts so it’s a tough transition in the work world. Paper organizers are not nearly as ubiquitous as they once were.
It connects it to another computer symbol, the folder which is seen plenty of times as the thing containing files. It's a solid solution.
Isn't that used as an icon for moving a file from one folder to another?
i think in that case your should first click on a "folder with arrow going out" (move out) icon before given this one to move into another directory. so the context is clear.
Yeah, if an open folder icon means ‘open a file’, then this inversion means saving the file.
That's a good one for local storage.
Some software uses that arrow with a cloud to say it's saved into the cloud.
We should do away with directories. Just one big block of files.
Screw multiple files, just use one big one. Just append anything you want to add and you'll have everything in 1 spot
Makes sense. Then you can add some kind of index to the file so you can jump to the parts you want. Just track a list of chunks, so they don't have to be contiguous.
Yeah, and we could give that huge file some kind of internal and logical structure to find those chunks, maybe something hierarchical with human readable names!
Yeah! Now we're cooking! I bet we could really improve resiliency and seek times with different data structures, too. B trees?
Or maybe we could keep the flat structure and have some kind of syntax for querying the data... some kind of structured language.
You've basically invented OneNote
Crap, I was hoping to invent file systems.
Easy to find saves time
PalmOS actually did that. Programs had records saved in a central database, not files.
Yes look everything up by ~~keyword~~ describing its contents to AI agent.
Yea replace the 90s tech icon for the filing cabinet paper folder , from who knows when. It's actually a good suggestions this technology still hasn't disappeared. But it will soon, as foretold by the paperless office prophecies. So I think a half buried treasure chest icon would be better as a forever lasting icon.
Is there an icon that expresses the default cloud save location as well as the circuitous GUI you need to navigate yo select your desired location on local storage?