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Scott Jenson — How the (Linux) Desktop UX Needs to Evolve to Keep Up with Local-First (www.youtube.com)
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[–] kubica@fedia.io 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I had to watch it it because the other summary made it sound so bad to me.

The author is offering some ideas about how make the desktop be more helpful to your working memory.

It gives various ideas:

  • Organizing wide screens in a sort of perspective plane zoom.
  • Having a sort of note manager combining clipboard and windows.
  • Having a history of apps used, weighting the importance of the window by some actions and time spent so that it can be presented back to you to remember what you where doing.
  • Some of these have potential to be integrated with AI although it was not the main idea.
[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Having a sort of note manager combining clipboard and windows.

Looking Glass WM had this way back in 06-07. You could flip a window over and write notes about it on the back. It's a shame it never took off, but that's what it gets for being written in Java, I guess.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's such a neat idea

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah there were a lot of cool ideas in that WM that were way ahead of their time. The keynote from 2006 goes over most of them. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv8VlpoK_g