{"id":1332,"date":"2006-10-17T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/eaglefiler\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:58:09","slug":"eaglefiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/eaglefiler\/","title":{"rendered":"EagleFiler"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nOn Friday, I released a brand-new application. EagleFiler<\/a> grew out of an idea I had around 1999 of building a mail archiver that combined a standard file format with an interface like that of a real mail client. A few years later, I realized that it should also help me organize and search my piles of PDFs and Web pages, as well as other types of files.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nIt\u2019s a relief to finally show people what I\u2019ve been working on. So far, the reaction is positive, and I\u2019ve received a lot of good feedback. Some of the requests are great ideas that I should have thought of, but didn\u2019t. Most of them are what I was expecting\u2014they\u2019re for things that I\u2019ve been planning but that weren\u2019t done in time for 1.0. On an open-ended app like this, it\u2019s hard but necessary to postpone more than you want until later versions. Development is more fun, and productive I think, when it\u2019s more interactive. This is where feedback will really help shape future versions of EagleFiler. There are some things I left out of 1.0 that I thought were important, but that no one has yet requested. Other things which I thought would be nice but not essential have struck people as glaring omissions. As a result, I\u2019m reshuffling my to-do list to address the more common requests first.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nLastly, since I\u2019m too lazy to drag and drop, one of my favorite features in EagleFiler is the capture key<\/a>. While working in another application, you press a hot key and EagleFiler determines what you were viewing and adds it to the library. A bunch of apps are already supported, and you can add support for additional apps by writing capture scripts<\/a>. Of course, for this to work, the app must be scriptable, and it must provide a way of accessing the content or selection of the front window. Scriptable applications are cool.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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