eDirectree - almost certainly the best online directory management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:


1. We want to help people make their directories available to the people who matter to them.


Maybe they want to reconnect past friends from old sports teams, clubs, and groups they belonged to in high school, or maybe they want to share something interesting with their friends. Or maybe they want to securely and privately share directories of their relatives with their family across the country. eDirectree makes all these things possible and more! To do this, we want to get directories into and out of the system in as many ways as we can: from yearbook photos, from booklets, from spreadsheet files, from the web, from mobile devices, from the users' home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their directories. And we want to be able to push them out in as many ways as possible: on the eDirectree website, in RSS feeds, by email, by posting to outside blogs or ways we haven't thought of yet. What else are we going to use those smart refrigerators for? eDirectree is the Magic Marker that makes it easy to get directories from one person to another in whatever way they want.

2. We want to enable new ways of organizing directories.

Once you make the switch to digital, it is all too easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer number of directories you join with that itchy trigger finger. Folders, the principal way people go about organizing directories today, are great -- until you get to 20 or 30 or 50 of them. They worked in the days when you just had one computer and space in your garage, but the "folder" metaphor is in desperate need of a Phoenix condo and full retirement.

Part of the solution is to make the process of organizing directories collaborative. In eDirectree, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your directories - not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. People like to ooh and ahh, laugh and cry, make wisecracks when sharing directories. Why not give them the ability to do this when they look at them over the internet?

And as all this info accretes around the directories as metadata, you can find them so much easier later on, since all this info is also searchable. eDirectree continues to evolve in myriad ways, all of which are designed to make it easier and better.