OLLOS

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We experience life along a self-organizing dimension: time. We think of our experiences and the things that matter to us in its terms quite often. Our digital environments should match that understanding, to support our mental models for memory and recall, planning, and so forth. OLLOS is an experiment that organizes everything in my personal computing environment on one unified timeline. It’s a personal interface I worked on and in from 2021 to 2023. This essay is mostly comprised of notes taken in 2022 during development, since polished for publication. Let’s start with a demo. Here’s the first few minutes of a video I sent to members in 2022 with a good overview: Email Twitter Mastodon Want to receive my work as I publish it? EXPERIMENT 002: OLLOS CIRCA 2021 - 2023 PUB. JAN. 21, 2024 SWIFT, C In this essay, I’ll discuss how OLLOS works, how the concept and design evolved, what worked well in daily use, future work that it points toward, and what I learned about personal interfac

AO | EXP 002 An itemized personal computing timeline We experience life along a self-organizing dimension: time. We think of our experiences and the things that matter to us in its terms quite often. Our digital environments should match that understanding, to support our mental models for memory and recall, planning, and so forth. OLLOS is an experiment that organizes everything in my personal computing environment on one unified timeline. It’s a personal interface I worked on and in from 2021 to 2023. This essay is mostly comprised of notes taken in 2022 during development, since polished fo

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