Time management, project management, chat, calendars, email, operating systems themselves, all this shit we evolved into because we started with 8.3 char file limits, booting from floppy disks, other long forgotten hardware based concessions, and a host of other cruft we still haven't thrown off.
Our interfaces are not based on first principles of reality or organized thinking, they're all just hodgepodge artifacts evolved from tty interfaces and limited input options that were supersceded by lowest common denominator GUIs and every hostile app trying to lock in user data.
Only now are we starting to see a few "platform apps" start to converge towards slightly better taxonomies around calendars and tasks, the amount of context switching is still miserable overall.
Our interfaces are not based on first principles of reality or organized thinking, they're all just hodgepodge artifacts evolved from tty interfaces and limited input options that were supersceded by lowest common denominator GUIs and every hostile app trying to lock in user data.
Only now are we starting to see a few "platform apps" start to converge towards slightly better taxonomies around calendars and tasks, the amount of context switching is still miserable overall.