[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/09/18 08:11:40

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        FutureVision   : vision.rst 

Log message:
        applitudes

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 (There may be more than one view available for the same item.
 The user can choose between alternative views through a menu.)
 
+A user would be able to **choose the views appropriate for the
+task at hand**, which may come **from different sources**. 
+The historian's map and timeline views may have been developed
+independently, for completely different purposes, and it may
+have been the user who re-purposed them for their work.
+(For convenience, the user may create menus and choose
+view defaults for each task, providing quick access
+to the functionality needed for this task.)
+
+Instead of forcing the user to think in applications,
+such a system lends itself to be structured around
+the user's tasks. Nelson [XXXfwref] uses the term
+**applitude** for such a "[zone] of functionality."
+An applitude is not "walled off" from the rest of the
+system; when information from a different applitude
+is needed, it is always available. 
+
+Items are **not owned
+by any single applitude**: When you need to connect
+information to an item that doesn't fit into the
+current applitude, you can always do so by creating
+a new type of relationship. Items **may have roles
+in more than one applitude**; for example, a person
+may exist both in our scheduling applitude, and
+the address book we use when writing e-mail.
+
 Such an environment would not only help us structure the
 information we already store in our computers, it may also
 help us to **organize our thoughts**.