> When I read this I can't help about stellar pieces of usable software that have been produced by one person. A possible example of this is C. E. Steuart Dew

> When I read this I can't help about stellar pieces of usable software that have been produced by one person. A possible example of this is C. E. Steuart Dewar's DateBk for Palm, a Personal Information Manager (PIM) software title he published through his company Pimlico Software [1]. The sheer density of the UX/UI (he packed an enormous amount of visual indicators and manipulables into very few pixels, and the pinpoint precision of the stylus helped here) is anathema to current Web and smartphone sensibilities, but it was the closest I have felt to the intertwingle-ness [2] of the Emacs Org mode experience on a smartphone. If you had a "power user" mindset, then the software was productivity hacking catnip. Still looking for the data storage layout of the Apple Newton, the densely-packed yet layered feature set (progressive disclosure UX) of Pimlico DateBk3, hackability of GNU Emacs Org mode, and an LLM-powered index to organize my personal information in an open, introspectable, future-proofed format. [1] http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/datebk6.htm http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/datebk6.htm [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity