Xerox Park - The Files Metaphor

A non-volatile workspace is kind of intuitive at this point, right? The idea that I should be able to return to a workspace, have all my items that I had up, arrange the way I had them. And so we lost it every time I feel like, and so whenever I describe my work on my website, I say new and renewed ideas because I constantly find 90% of what I put in to my work was there and often at Xerox Park. So the files metaphor, the files mental model for what's happening down there is at least for me way, way better than the, well, there aren't really files and it's sort of magic, but we