Reading this reminded me of part of Bret Victor's 2006 "Magic Inc" [1]. The utopia Victor envisions is somewhat related to this post, but taken further and exte

Reading this reminded me of part of Bret Victor's 2006 "Magic Inc" [1]. The utopia Victor envisions is somewhat related to this post, but taken further and extended to all kinds of data - not just notes. The idea is fairly fundamental - ultimately, each application should know about whatever is relevant in their context, especially if other applications already know it (Victor goes into applications making smart guesses through ML methods or sensor data as well, but a big part of it is having access to data from other apps). Of course, if you actually want to get all your apps to talk to eachother without causing a babylonian mess and/or compromising privacy completely, things get extremely tricky. But I do feel like OSes could develop further in this regard, at least for fairly standard data like events, notes, etc. 1. http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/