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Because it's really convenient to be able to make a note on your phone or tablet, then access it and make additional post-meeting notes shortly thereafter, on a

by JoBrad 11y ago

Because it's really convenient to be able to make a note on your phone or tablet, then access it and make additional post-meeting notes shortly thereafter, on a laptop, all in the same interface (so you have the same features, or at least a set of common features). That's just one, assuming you never want formatting, tables, pictures, etc.

ant6n 11y ago
Maybe we need some sort of unix on the web.
- straws 11y ago
  More of a fun experiment than anything else, but the Pig Shell is worth playing with: http://pigshell.com/ http://pigshell.com/
  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    It's cool, but I always found such things to be cargo-culting and going in the completly wrong direction. You don't want to make a web shell, you want to use normal shell for web. For a proper "Web UNIX" we need: - websites talking in structured data (not just plain text) - less propertiary bullshit (hint: keep sales & marketing people away from APIs) - ability to conveniently pipe them together anywhere (not on a third-party, complexity-hiding, feature-limiting site like IFTTT) When I can start typing things like these in my own, local shell: @twitter.com/me/tweets/latest | sort > tweets.log echo tweets.log | @facebook.com/me/post/new --activity "Feeling: Happy" --photo /tmp/HN.jpg (where @ is a somewhat general web communication utility) then we'll have a web UNIX.
TeMPOraL 11y ago
Oh Emacs does tables[0] better than anything out there, except maybe MS Excel. Definitely eats stuff like Evernote or Google Drive for breakfast. [0] - http://orgmode.org/ http://orgmode.org/
- justinhj 11y ago
  I love org mode but due to the fact that emacs doesn't run on my phone and Evernote does, I take notes on Evernote when I'm not at my computer
zeveb 11y ago
> Because it's really convenient to be able to make a note on your phone or tablet, then access it and make additional post-meeting notes shortly thereafter, on a laptop, all in the same interface (so you have the same features, or at least a set of common features). That's why I personally want emacs on my phone and tablet. I don't know yet the best way to expose its functionality with a touch interface, but it's still, hands-down the best way to edit information. Maybe something where a tap in the minibar offers some sort of helm- or ido-like command-picking mode, and with taps on the side to enable quick execution of text-editing commands? I dunno, really. > That's just one, assuming you never want formatting, tables, pictures, etc. Emacs can handle formatting, tables and pictures if you want.

by JoBrad 11y ago

ant6n 11y ago

Maybe we need some sort of unix on the web.

straws 11y ago
More of a fun experiment than anything else, but the Pig Shell is worth playing with: http://pigshell.com/ http://pigshell.com/
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  It's cool, but I always found such things to be cargo-culting and going in the completly wrong direction. You don't want to make a web shell, you want to use normal shell for web. For a proper "Web UNIX" we need: - websites talking in structured data (not just plain text) - less propertiary bullshit (hint: keep sales & marketing people away from APIs) - ability to conveniently pipe them together anywhere (not on a third-party, complexity-hiding, feature-limiting site like IFTTT) When I can start typing things like these in my own, local shell: @twitter.com/me/tweets/latest | sort > tweets.log echo tweets.log | @facebook.com/me/post/new --activity "Feeling: Happy" --photo /tmp/HN.jpg (where @ is a somewhat general web communication utility) then we'll have a web UNIX.

TeMPOraL 11y ago

Oh Emacs does tables[0] better than anything out there, except maybe MS Excel. Definitely eats stuff like Evernote or Google Drive for breakfast. [0] - http://orgmode.org/ http://orgmode.org/

justinhj 11y ago
I love org mode but due to the fact that emacs doesn't run on my phone and Evernote does, I take notes on Evernote when I'm not at my computer

zeveb 11y ago

> Because it's really convenient to be able to make a note on your phone or tablet, then access it and make additional post-meeting notes shortly thereafter, on a laptop, all in the same interface (so you have the same features, or at least a set of common features). That's why I personally want emacs on my phone and tablet. I don't know yet the best way to expose its functionality with a touch interface, but it's still, hands-down the best way to edit information. Maybe something where a tap in the minibar offers some sort of helm- or ido-like command-picking mode, and with taps on the side to enable quick execution of text-editing commands? I dunno, really. > That's just one, assuming you never want formatting, tables, pictures, etc. Emacs can handle formatting, tables and pictures if you want.