Text is exact, programmable, repeatable and transmissible. exact: in many GUI tools, you can have non-default settings that you changed via menus. Where are th

Text is exact, programmable, repeatable and transmissible. exact: in many GUI tools, you can have non-default settings that you changed via menus. Where are they stored? Which ones are currently active? Does it matter that you selected four objects first, then a transform tool, then another object? programmable: > find /var/spool/program/data -name foop* -mtime +3d -print vs "open the file manager, go to /var/spool/program/data, sort by name, secondary-sort by last modification time, find the ones that are more than 3 days old, make sure you don't slip" repeatable: OK, do that again but in a different directory. transmissible: here's the one-liner that does that. Now, your specific requests are about audio and video toolchains, where I will admit that reasoning about flows is easier with spatial cues -- but I'd really like the output of that GUI to be an editable text file.