I chuckled when I saw a link to Django Djumpstart: Build a To-do List in 30 Minutes.
I'm not making fun of the article, I just think it goes to show that
there's something wrong with our computers, when creating a todo-list
requires half an hour of my time in which I'm entering gibberish like SET PATH=%PATH%;path-to-django\django\bin or (r'^report/$', 'gtd.todo.views.status_report') into the machine.
Not to speak of having to write code and database schemas, which in the end create nothing but an ultra-simple app that isn't integrated with the rest of my data, or offers standard features like sorting, filtering, structuring, adding custom fields, sharing, etc.
The fix
I guess that creating a todo-list with a system like the radically tailorable Oval would take about 3 minutes, it would be integrated deeply at least with the other data in the system, and would get a lot of slice-and-diceabilly for free.
In the same vein, A Dream of an Ultimate OS by Oleg Kiselyov, proposes to standardize data services at the OS level:
This paper is an attempt to imagine what an OS would look like and how it would work if looking for a word foo in something and deleting/closing/stopping this something -- be it a paragraph of text, a network connection, a subscribed newsgroup, a process - would all require roughly the same sequence of mouse clicks/keystrokes, and would be understood and interpreted in the same spirit by the operating system.
Ceterum censeo, craplexity esse delendam.
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