Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans
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Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools.
Planning a trip involves synthesizing information from many sources. Motivation: the limits of siloed apps Why is it so difficult to plan a trip using our digital devices? When making a plan of any kind, we need to pull together information from different sources, and then synthesize the information to make decisions. Although apps give us access to all kinds of information, they provide only limited mechanisms for bringing it together in useful ways. Whenever a complex task requires multiple apps, we are forced to juggle information across apps, resulting in tedious and error-prone coordinati
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- Yung-Hsuan Yang
- Svitlana Midianko
- Mathurah Ravigulan
- Bonnie Chin
- Ratan Kaliani
- Stella Jia
- Benedict Neo
- Sauhard Jain
- Carla Ostmann
- Sophie L.
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