I want a project-based operating system rather than an application or file-based operating system. Here’s what I mean.

Let’s say I’m writing a business plan. I have the plan itself in a Word document, a few charts in Excel, and maybe a presentation in Powerpoint. So far so good. I can keep all that stuff in a folder, right?

But what about emails? What about tasks? What about events? Those things are all in Outlook, separate from my business plan folder. Sure, I can create a folder in Outlook for the emails, but it’s still separate from my business plan folder.

I want one project-related folder that contains absolutely everything associated with that project.

• Files
• Emails
• Tasks
• Events
• Bookmarks
• Deadlines and deliverables

So, e.g., when I get an email, I want to be able to associate it with a project folder so that when I open that project folder I see all the relevant emails.