I'm new to Start++. On my list of 'dream tools' are self-organizing Start Menus and bookmarks (del.icio.us is a good start; I'm looking forward to seeing what Firefox 3.x brings).
Basically the Start Menu quickly gets out of hand when you add a lot of applications, making it difficult to find things. It's even worse if you share a computer with somebody -- you download things and they clutter the start menu. Yes, you can manually create a hierarchy, but that's difficult to maintain, especially when you do an update that again puts the entry in the top-level of the Programs.
The way I see it, products should have 'tags' just like web pages that would enable the Start Menu to be self-organizing. There might be a social networking aspect to it where users would assign the tags -- then the start menu would present items by category instead of in a flat hierarchy. Same idea for web pages in bookmarks.
Anybody seen anything like this for start menus? It doesn't sound terribly difficult to write, but it would take some time, which I don't have.
- Art