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Computers are supposed to be "information technology," |
Computers are supposed to be "information technology," |
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to help you to keep your information organized. But |
to help you to keep your information organized. But |
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we still have no good **tools** to help us **remember** our tasks, |
we still have no sufficiently good **tools** commonly available to help us |
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ideas and obligations; no tools to **organize what we know** |
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about a thing, so that we can **understand** it better; |
- remember our tasks, ideas and obligations |
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no tools to **structure our thoughts**; no tools, |
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when grappling with our problems today, |
- organize what we know about a thing, so that we can understand it better |
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to remind us of the solutions of yesteryear. |
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- when grappling with our problems today, to remind us of the solutions of yesteryear. |
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We need a computer that helps us keep track of addresses, |
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appointments, birthdays, budgets, employees, phone calls, |
- structure our thoughts |
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courses we have taken, marks we got, |
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thoughts, ideas, types of poems, types of plants, |
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classes in a program and structures in a plot. |
We need a computer that helps us keep track of |
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- "Personal information": addresses, appointments, birthdays |
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- Ideas: thoughts, ideas, types of poems |
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- Work: budgets, employees, phone calls, courses we have taken, marks we got, types of plants, classes in a program and structures in a plot |
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Instead of being centered around irrelevant computery |
Instead of being centered around irrelevant computery |
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abstractions like "files" and "directories," such a system |
abstractions like "files" and "directories," such a system |