Foam: Software as Curation
We tend to think of software in terms of monolithic "apps." But what if we thought about software design as a process of curating existing parts into a holistic user experience?
July 2020 Foam: Software as Curation We tend to think of software in terms of monolithic "apps." But what if we thought about software design as a process of curating existing parts into a holistic user experience? So there's a standard way that many note taking apps work these days. You choose an app , which includes a UI to read/write your notes, and cloud sync so you can work on your computer or your phone. Maybe you get decent offline support if you're lucky. When it inevitably comes time to move on to the next app, you have to adapt to a whole new interface. And hopefully you can export y
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