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Lucid Nonsense

BumpTop for Mac

I am starting to get really used to BumpTop, which is unusual for me because I normally don’t tend to use any interface tweaks. John Gruber mentioned it on Daring Fireball and I think he hit the nail on the head. He doesn’t find it too useful because he wants a better Finder in general, I find it brilliant because I barely use the Finder. My file organising generally involves piling things on the Desktop until it gets too untidy, and then putting everything into a “Desktop Clutter” folder. It’s similar to the way I manage my real desk, and operates on the “If it’s important people will start shouting about it” principal. I do file some things neatly, but they tend to be filed in a folder marked with a company name, so the quickest way to access them is always just typing the name into Spotlight.

So BumpTop works for me, it lets me pile things up and organise things very visually. Plus the faux-3D works well for how I use my Desktop. I have a lot of quick reference files on my Desktop (notes of IP addresses, common commands to cut and paste etc.). I like having them handy, but I don’t necessarily want to see them all the time. With BumpTop I can pin them to one of the side-walls, which lets me visually arrange things, yet not use up all my Desktop space as the side walls can be hidden to give you a more traditional 2D Desktop.

There’s a few things that could do with being improved, I’d like file selection to be tidied up a little and the “clean up” command could do with behaving more like Apple’s which arranges things in a more Mac-like manner and (for instance) always make sure that hard drives are displayed top-right. It is a promising start though.