I really would like the “Open…” dialog to show Zeitgeist stuff. Imagine: you have an application running, you click Open, the file selector dialog appears and it shows you recent documents opened with that application, with the last time they were used.

Or the documents most frequently opened with that application, sorted by frequency. Or the documents most opened, sorted by number of times opened.

Or documents that are contextually relevant. Let’s say, you always copy and paste data from a certain website to a certain spreadsheet. So you open the website in your browser; then you launch the spreadsheet program; you click “open”; you select some option as “Context relevant” or something; and Zeitgeist provides files that are often used together with whatever is open at the moment; so it shows you the spreadsheet where you always paste data from the website you have.

I really, really, really think that this Zeitgeist thing could be great.

Nautilus already has some of the same pitfalls, hopefully it will have less in the future, not more.

My biggest problem with gnome-activity-journal is that its a separate program, having it automatically integrated into nautilus by default is such a great idea and pretty much solves that problem of having to fire up a separate program. I really hope the zeitgeist team can work with the nautilus developers into getting this included to the default nautilus for GNOME 3!

I am also not interested in cloning finder, but I do want to take advantage of zeitgeist by adding history and day navigation. Using IconViews perhaps and not the embeddable journal.