There is something intriguing and (maybe telling) in the longevity of the terminal mode. It was invented out of pure necessity when various resources (compute,

There is something intriguing and (maybe telling) in the longevity of the terminal mode. It was invented out of pure necessity when various resources (compute, screen, network etc) were really scarce. So it is extremely information dense. No superfluous eye candy, just the Word. In a sense the terminal is now the most respecting of our own limitations when parsing the firehose of information that is drenching every screen. What is missing though (after all those decades) are any widely adopted conventions for how to structure anything more complex than a simple top-to-bottom text flow. Once you move past the static page paradigm the possibilities are endless and that is not always helpful. But for a range of typical current use cases that involve information firehoses (a mailbox, an rss reader, a social media app, a wiki etc) it would be fantastic to develop common TUI design principles.