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Based on the Object model associated with files, each kept Object is, technically speaking, a separate instance of the activity which created it.  This eliminates the need to "open" a file from within an activity, replacing the act of opening with the act of resuming a previous activity instance.  Of course, a child will have the option to resume a drawing with a different set of brushes, or resume an essay with a different pen, providing "open with" style functionality, but no substitute for an "open" command will exist within an activities interface.

Based on the Object model associated with files, each kept Object is, technically speaking, a separate instance of the activity which created it.  This eliminates the need to "open" a file from within an activity, replacing the act of opening with the act of resuming a previous activity instance.  Of course, a child will have the option to resume a drawing with a different set of brushes, or resume an essay with a different pen, providing "open with" style functionality, but no substitute for an "open" command will exist within an activities interface.

====Temporal Organization====

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=====Temporal Organization=====

Along with the idea of implicit keeping, the laptops will drastically minimize the hierarchical filesystem as a means for organization, replacing it with a temporally organized list of activities and events, furthering the Journal metaphor. This drastically simplifies the auto-keeping behavior, since it eliminates the need to specify a location in which a newly started activity should be kept;  naturally, the newly started activity will appear as the most recent entry in the journal.

 

Temporal organization functions naturally in the absence of explicit or hierarchical methods, since humankind's intrinsic relationship to time gives them, at the very least, a relative notion of "how long ago" something happened. By moving back through the Journal, a child can simply locate  the period in time within which she knows she made something, and then employ additional use of searching, filtering, and sorting to pinpoint exactly what she's looking for.

 

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