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Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software

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Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications

Introduction There’s a certain joy to scribbling down a note, whether in a physical notebook or a digital notes app. We can write down information in whatever messy format we want, with no formal ceremony. Examples of “micronotes”, from our personal notes, and from the research paper Understanding the Micronote Lifecycle: Improving Mobile Support for Informal Note Taking However, these days, we increasingly use purpose-built software applications to manage personal information like recipes, workouts, budgets, and schedules. These apps provide all sorts of useful computational benefits—calculat

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