Spatial Finder was the ultimate example of "It just works" from Macs in the past. Unless you knew what it was doing (always opening folders in the same place),

Spatial Finder was the ultimate example of "It just works" from Macs in the past. Unless you knew what it was doing (always opening folders in the same place), it was something that would be hard to articulate as an advantage over other operating systems. The tradeoff against that of course was that you could not open the same folder in two different windows. With OS X, Finder implemented Miller Columns[0] (as taken from NextStep), so that ended spatial Finder, since windows could no longer be associated with particular folders. Personally, I'm a huge fan of Miller Columns as I find the easy hierarchy great as part of the "operating system is the dev environment" approach, but if I worked on more chaotic art projects perhaps I'd like spatial finder more. Either way I use Windows now and most of the alternative file managers don't seem to integrate into the OS well, so I get neither lol 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns