Document-centric workflows were once the great promise of the future
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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.