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1. p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵ (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2017 02:44:59 EST p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵

   BeOS (and now Haiku) implements e-mail like this: the list of e-mails is just your file browser; Haiku's "attributes" provides e-mail specific columns. Opening one of those files launches a viewer app. (Usually 'Mail' but the user can change it)

   Your address book? Also just a directory, with address-book-appropriate "attributes."

   Your music library? Same

   I think it's tragic that we've abandoned this kind of convergence to work within a powerful hierarchical data-table browser widget.

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2017 04:25:04 EST clacke

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      @pho4cexa Huh. Be/Haiku is more Plan 9-like than I've previously realized then.