foldier’s goal is to put you in charge of the digital content you create and retrieve from different locations on the Internet. We call these locations data sources. With foldier you can share and discuss the resulting content with your friends, save it or just organize it.
Search plays two major roles in foldier. First, search allows for easy retrieval of data from your connected sources. Second, search serves as the main tool through which data is organized via smart folders.
For these reasons foldier’s search engine performs differently from the typical Internet search engine.
For example, when we run a search on Google or Yahoo, we receive a comprehensive list of results sorted by relevance as defined by their underlying algorithms. If we can’t find what we want on the search engine’s first attempt, we usually enter a slightly different search.
Most of the time when we search on the Internet with these tools we are looking for an answer to a specific question. For example, the train departure schedule to San Jose, or the weather condition in Italy. We are not particularly concerned where the information comes from as long as our initial question is answered.
However, when we run a search in foldier, we’re looking for something different: specific content that we created ourselves or linked within our account.
Also, foldier searches are another kind of engine — they fuel the smart folder system. A smart folder is a saved search. After you write a search, foldier dynamically aggregates all the matching items in your account within a smart folder. The system continuously runs every search you’ve entered so that each smart folder’s content is constantly updated. Once created, your smart folders automatically and endlessly organize your data. This system relieves you from having to decide where to file new content.
In the next post we’ll give you some tips for how to write effective searches in foldier.
The foldier team.
