foldier FAQ

Can I use foldier on my smart phone or IPhone ?

foldierteam — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:10:28 +0000

Smart phones? Not in the beta version. Maybe later!

iPhone: we tested it and the IPhone browser (Safari) can navigate foldier pretty well. Some pages in foldier use Flash – those won’t work.

Can I produce a blog using foldier?

foldierteam — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:49:51 +0000

No — but we can connect from any blogging platform.

Later, we plan to offer a blogging “connection” to a preferred blogging provider as part of our premium membership. You’ll be able to link to that provider directly from foldier, and you’ll be able to send content to your blog and to any indexing service, like digg or del.icio.us.

Do I need to install foldier desktop in order to use foldier?

foldierteam — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:18:28 +0000

No. You install foldier desktop only if you want to connect a local folder on your computer to your foldier account. You can use your foldier membership only for Web content, if you like.

What happens to my foldier links if my computer crashes? Or my connection breaks?

foldierteam — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:59:03 +0000

If for any reason foldier desktop is shut down unexpectedly, only one thing happens: foldier will not be able to access files and content connected through that particular moment. Anything already linked would be fine.

Still, we recommend web storage for reliable 24/7 online access to your data. Not to mention backup.

If I connect music to my foldier account, will foldier organize it automatically?

foldierteam — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:16:08 +0000

Yes — by artist, album. foldier has a media management tool imbedded in it — it recognizes music, video and pictures as well as folders.

foldier provides online players for any non-static media. You can play in a random order, make slides from the pictures within a smart folder or play multiple videos within a smart folder.

foldier will do its best to generate smart folders that contain media of the same type.

If I want to delete a folder, must I move all the files inside it beforehand?

foldierteam — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:12:05 +0000

No — because folders in foldier are smart, and as such they are searching files — you’re not deleting a file, you’re deleting a search.

It’s a different way of thinking about filing, that’s for sure.

What’s the advantage of using foldier instead of a simple email?

foldierteam — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:20:18 +0000

First, sending an email can be time consuming — writing it, looking for the file on your hard drive, considering the speed of your connection, etc.

When you install foldier desktop and designate a file folder to be shared, you make that folder “smart.” It becomes searchable and foldier aggregates any new content as it is saved to the folder.

You’ll know that every time you store something on a foldier desktop smart folder, it will get distributed to whomever you’ve designated. You don’t have to think about it.

How does foldier work with RSS feeds?

foldierteam — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:56:57 +0000

In two ways. foldier can connect to RSS feeds on any site and “take” the data to circulate to you. And foldier can also produce RSS feeds from any one of the folders you create. All you have to do is click “publish” when you create the folder. Then every time you add something new, or foldier aggregates data from an RSS feed, you and your contacts get an alert — if you’ve set that as your preference.

How does foldier organize my files and folders — by topic, by date, by person?

foldierteam — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:57:53 +0000

Foldier organizes your files the way you tagged them — by searching and organizing them by your taxonomy. It can be any way you like, including topic, date or person.

Exactly how does foldier use my tags?

Michele Ursino — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:59:38 +0000

Everywhere you have stuff on the Internet is about the form of the content, not the subject of the content. Photos in one website, videos in another, documents on your computer. Having the Internet to do different things is great, but your content is all over the place — what is called fragmentation of content. Which means it’s up to you to remember where everything is. Or which friend is on what social network. Plus, because you have so much stuff and it’s in all these different places, you don’t have time for cross-referencing. To organize everything as you’d like.
Enter foldier.
On foldier, tagging is a power tool. [We get very excited about this.] You can create your own taxonomy. That’s a big word for a basic idea: the system you use to classify, or categorize, content. Like the Dewey decimal system or the Library of Congress guidelines, both of which many libraries use. foldier is your power tool for creating your very own taxonomy. You get to invent your own system. If you remember stuff by people’s last names, you can file it that way. If you think in terms of subject or date, you can do that. Or you can do it all three ways at once. The combinations are infinite. And foldier can change or add to them whenever you want. So instead of being tied to one platform’s taxonomy, or managing an expanding filing cabinet full of cross references, or taking up precious hard drive space, foldier makes it possible to organize content under as many categories as you like AND leave it in its original place. foldier uses Internet technology to link to all your content without duplication, or synchronization.