1 General
YelloBoo is a Windows Shell extension application that is to help
its users to better manage their files among all the files (often a lot of)
spread over the hard disks of the user's computer. In the Windows
Explorer a file is identified by its name and path, with an icon showing
the class it belongs to. But the Explorer cannot show however some 'customized'
properties for the files without changing its name, path or icons. For example,
A secretary one day has received a lot of documents from her boss, who tells her
to make some corrections through all of them. The secretary work hard on those
documents immediately, along with other routine tasks. Some documents are
Microsoft Word documents (.doc), some are Excel spreadsheets (.xsl),
some are graphics (.jpg). At the end of the day, she has finished some docs,
some xsl and some jpgs as well. But there are still a lot left for the next
couple of days. But how to distinguish those finished from the not when she
comes in the next day so that she can continue work on them without messing
herself up?
As an intuitive way, YelloBoo comes to the rescue. With YelloBoo,
What she need to do is select the files she has finished, right click her
mouse button to pop up the menu, select "Mark..." menu, then a small dialog
shows up, allowing her to pick up a small icon as the mark and optionally
a short description. Then she click 'OK'. That's all. The effect is, in the folder
where those documents are listed, some of them (selected by the secretary) have
a small label (possibly a check mark) on the lower left corner of their icons.
The secretary will clearly see what she has finished without movings, renamings
or copyings of the original files.
How it works
Below are some graphics demonstrating the basic steps a user performs to mark
their files. Please not those pictures are made from non-windows OS, and therefore
are only for reference purpose.
Step 1 . Selecting the desired files
Step 2. Right Click Your Mouse
Step 3. Pick up A Label
Step 4. Finish
