Content management isn't just about adding, editing, and approving content. It's also about helping users understand the connection between pieces of content.

The inclusion of text and metadata has allowed CMS products to become more flexible and have less rigid folder schemes. Instead of creating a process so you can remember where you saved specific files or programs, you can now store a rich search as a Smart Folder. Get smarter. Reduce your chaos. Have your content right at hand.

Plone 2.1 takes this idea and makes it much more powerful and easy-to-use. Want to show all news items created by the Marketing department in the past week? Need an automatically updated list of all the files added to your project as it progresses? Smart Folders to the rescue!

Creating these smart folders is a straightforward task, and the creator can even decide how the results should be listed visually — all without writing any HTML or a single line of code.

Smart folders are also RSS-enabled out-of-the-box, so a simple blog can be created in just a few clicks!

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