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Andy Glew edited this page Aug 5, 2021 · 5 revisions

Welcome to the SW-HW-notes-and-reviews wiki!

For the moment, this wiki is the primary place where I and putting things, not so much in the repo itself

For quite some time I was reluctant to create this repo+wiki. E.g. many of my comments and notes are or will be about things like

  • Particular wikis, such as this GitHub wiki, Twiki, ...
  • Email programs
    • Clients such as Gmail or Thunderbird or Outlook or EMACS' Gnus
    • but also support stuff like isync/mbsync and MailDir
  • Google Drive and Docs
  • Notetaking software such as Microsoft OneNote or Evernote
  • Calendaring programs

Many of the programs that I bitch and moan and think about improving are aspects of "Personal Information Management" (PIM), or beyond a single user, human information management.

(aside/interjection: see wiki syntax and rendering problems)

Earlier I created the repo+wiki https://github.com/AndyGlew/HFIM-BS/wiki to collect my thoughts, and some of my tools, relevant to such Personal Information Management software -- naming it aspirationally as the goal "Human Friendly Information Management" (HFIM).

I was tempted to place notes about particular programs in the HFIM-BS repo+wiki.

Indeed, I have created tags inside the HFIM-BS wiki, such as [[tag:#UXN]] and [[tag:#UXW]] for user experience notes and wishes respectively, drawn from experience and frustration with specific applications.

But in general I want to keep the HFIM-BS repo+wiki fairly blue sky, about principles of design, not full of copious notes and complaints about existing software, and especially not full of incomplete working progress notes where I am trying to figure out how something works in somebody else's software. Short references to existing software via tag:#UXN and tag:#UXW are appropriate for HFIM-BS, But long dissections are not.

Hence this repo+wiki, SW-HW-notes-and-reviews.

SW and HW - Software and hardware - because while the initial content will mainly be software oriented, I have great interest in devices, wearables, etc., and will undoubtedly have notes and comments and reviews about these. Such "HW" is form factor, not so much the sort of computer architecture hardware in which I have made my career.

Current motivation: taking notes about email related software such as isync/mbsync

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