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Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

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Post by libealistand » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 6:34 AM UTC

jkl5xx wrote: post #26

Time and space are constants of everyone's life. You're always somewhere at some time . I've been dreaming of a centralized time & space view layer for years. Something that ingests all this data we have at our fingertips. This article gets really close to what I've imagined. Add in a map and you're able to correlate all sorts of behavior in order to understand yourself and the human condition so much better. P.S. I'…

A wet dream for the ubiquitous data collecting ad industry. Obviously such a service would live in the cloud and it would be "free" and that much personal data about everybody would be too good to pass as an opportunity. Forget FB or Google harvesting whatever little data they can pick up about you indirectly. This would be the holy grail.

Call me cynic but in a sense I'm glad we don't have this kind of thing.

Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

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Post by samsquire » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 6:06 PM UTC

miguelrochefort wrote: post #33

I highly resonate with this. In fact, I spent over a year buildng it [1]. My thesis is that the calendar will play a significant role in the next OS UI paradigm, replacing the old grid of icons and overlapping windows. Everything will happen around a unified timeline, through which you will launch an app by time-blocking its use, check notifications by looking at the past, forecast battery life or weather by looking…

Thanks for your comment.

Your mention of combining space and time compels me to share my thoughts about time and space, I am experimenting with a programming technique that models state directly as its primary interface (whereas most programming languages model instructions). Time is inferred by movements between states or interactions with state.

I want "turn by turn" navigation of state and time as an implication of that.

It's incomplete but here is a point and click programming environment with some numbers and some parsed JSON into a grid. You can move data around between cells and the instructions are logged and the state is captured on each instruction. You "move through" state space. Try moving a value from the top to the bottom or vice versa.

https://replit.com/@Chronological/DynamicTables#index.html

Time travelling is implemented by clicking on instructions (the list items under Program instructions when you have done an action) The goal is to to infer the instructions needed to do the movement, be it pop off the stack or access some inner field in JSON or call a function. It's inspired by spreadsheets and the insight that most programming is logistics.

Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

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Post by jkl5xx » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 3:57 AM UTC

libealistand wrote: post #51

jkl5xx wrote: post #26

Time and space are constants of everyone's life. You're always somewhere at some time . I've been dreaming of a centralized time & space view layer for years. Something that ingests all this data we have at our fingertips. This article gets really close to what I've imagined. Add in a map and you're able to correlate all sorts of behavior in order to understand yourself and the human condition so much better. P.S. I'…

A wet dream for the ubiquitous data collecting ad industry. Obviously such a service would live in the cloud and it would be "free" and that much personal data about everybody would be too good to pass as an opportunity. Forget FB or Google harvesting whatever little data they can pick up about you indirectly. This would be the holy grail. Call me cynic but in a sense I'm glad we don't have this kind of thing.

Not even if it were self-hostable, open source with an MIT license?