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[Goodie] Treemap representation [storage utility]

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:28 pm
by ale
[?] tag is to make our beloved mods work a bit and find a better one, maybe [Goodie]? :D

The post actually isn't closely related to CintaNotes, but just some thoughts I wanted to share.
This evening I was trying an utility to represent the data onto an hard disk drive using a treemap. I didn't know very well this kind of representation before and I found it very fascinating. If you want to give a look the utility is called SpaceSniffer, it's a freeware and portable software for Windows from an italian programmer. I particularly found really nice the zooming function as a way to enter with a doubleclick one more step into a detailed view. To tell the truth :mrgreen: I had some wild thoughts where this kind of data representation could be used in an application like CN. Imagine multiple notebooks, then doubleclick and zooming into a specific notebook and then zooming again to go to single note level, and there maybe double click again to go back to the list... or maybe a treemap to represent tags, as I said wild thoughts :)
Well, really no requests, I just wanted to share an experience and maybe Alex or other people may find it inspiring for CN or other totally different projects of their own life.

Re: [?] Treemap representation

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:51 am
by Noddy330
Isn't the analogy for CintaNotes to use TABS to select a set of TAGS and in effect drill down a selection of notes. But only at the top level. Nod

Re: [Goodie] Treemap representation [storage utility]

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:21 am
by Midas
I agree, Space Sniffer takes a refreshing approach to storage space visual representation with the area zooming method.
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

Myself, for the same purpose, I'm more of an OverDisk (also free) user:
http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html

IMHO, for a textual analog of Space Sniffer, you might want to check Treesheets (free, too):
http://treesheets.com/

Re: [Goodie] Treemap representation [storage utility]

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:05 pm
by Noddy330
SpaceSniffer gets my vote, with WidDirStat (http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/) at #2. Nod