(15-03-2020, 05:56 AM)venam Wrote:

(14-03-2020, 09:00 PM)z3bra Wrote: I'm digging back this thread

Another one is about asking yourself why would you have to learn different behavior to do the same thing with different tools.

Maybe I'm slightly missing the point, but I find all these arguments slightly unfair. The ultimate goal of both a cello and a trumpet is to make music, but that doesn't mean that either should be blamed for the fact that they approach that goal in a different way. Should a kazoo be the only instrument, because it is the only one that one can immediately play a tune on? It can also be hard to know what is good design and what is learnt: I remember listening to some recordings of Microsoft testing the double-click system, which didn't seem to come at all naturally to some people.

It might be that I'm beating a strawman, in which case I apologise. Anyway, my personal way of partially solving the situation is mostly to push as much as possible into email: I keep my notes in email, emails in email (but not a full archive, just things I care about), news in email, and appointments are mailed to me. Wherever I am, it's easy to access and I can use various different interfaces. This requires a collection of shell scripts, which is not ideal, but my primary problem at the moment that I'm trying to solve is avoiding external services and minimising the need for internet connectivity; it happens that lessening ties with any particular machine has partially arisen from that.

Tangentially, I've been meaning to read the design of everyday things. Is it worth it?