tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post3755377984443078410..comments2024-02-15T13:20:14.813-06:00Comments on Gordon's Notes: The erratic non-progress of the personal information managerJGFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-68261642729831104182007-09-07T12:51:00.000-05:002007-09-07T12:51:00.000-05:00Crossties sounds very much like the original "meme...Crossties sounds very much like the original "memex" (vannevar bush). Ted Nelson's (in) famous "Project Xanadu") was a delightfully hallucinatory expansion of the concept.<BR/><BR/>Really, this capability should be part of the operating system and I suspect it has been at various times in history. It does, unfortunately, require one of either:<BR/><BR/>1. True filesystem indirection (otherwise JGFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-84249331801700481482007-09-07T01:04:00.000-05:002007-09-07T01:04:00.000-05:00I am still using CrossTies running under XP. I th...I am still using CrossTies running under XP. I think Crossties was the killer PIM paradigm because it was nothing centric. You weren't forced to gather info around a person/contact (the model of most PIMS), but rather every object, be it a person, organization, project, spreadsheet, word doc, ... could be linked to an infinite number of other objects.<BR/><BR/>Crossties was released around SaidWhathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08407881864129425250noreply@blogger.com