Quoting Paul Robinson, Hacker News, 2024

Document-centric workflows were once the great promise of the future […] a future where we would decompose applications and the OS would only really worry about a file, and you would bring functionality to the file.

[…] the OSes we use require us to do this sort of work in a windowed application, […] the future of user interfaces and […] operating systems could support workflows tailored to the individual and the task they wanted to achieve.

— Paul Robinson, Hacker News, 2024

11:28pm on October 30, 2024 from Istanbul, Turkey.


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