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[1] Jim Nielsen’s Blog Verified ($10/year for the domain) [2]Archive [3]About
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[4]RSS Preferences
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Theme: This feature requires JavaScript as well as the default site fidelity
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(see below).
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Fidelity:
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Controls the level of style and functionality of the site, a lower fidelity
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meaning less bandwidth, battery, and CPU usage. [5]Learn more.
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[6](*) Default [7]( ) Minimal [8]( ) Text-Only Update
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More Files Please
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2024-02-27
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Scott Jenson has a great article called [10]“The future needs files”.
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The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary
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holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A
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range of apps can edit a single file in a single location.
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Files as a medium of exchange between applications — I like that. It’s akin to
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the usefulness of currency.
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The most powerful aspect of files is that they liberate your data. Any app
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can see it and do something useful to it.
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Files represent a “data first vs app first organization”. If you’re planning a
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wedding, you put everything wedding related into a folder. All your data is now
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in one place vs. strewn across various apps.
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Documents — like a Notion doc — are today’s folders: they contain a list of
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links to “files” that will open in bespoke applications.
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But there are drawbacks, like interoperability. Do we want to trust our data to
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the success or failure of a single company?
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Files encapsulate a ‘chunk’ of your work and allow that chunk to be seen,
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moved, acted on, and accessed by multiple people and more importantly
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external 3rd party processes.
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Can you imagine working on a codebase — which is a set of files — but the files
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were locked to a particular IDE? Craziness.
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Personally, I’m a file guy. I love files. And I wish more products worked in
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the currency of exchange of files.
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Comment? Reply via: [11]Email, [12]Mastodon, or [13]Twitter.
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References:
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[1] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/
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[2] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/archive/
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[3] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/about/
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[4] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/feed
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[5] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/website-fidelity/
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[10] https://jenson.org/files/
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[11] mailto:jimniels%2Bblog@gmail.com?subject=Re:%20blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/more-files-plz/
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[12] https://mastodon.social/@jimniels
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[13] https://twitter.com/jimniels
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