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There is little need to look for fancy apps and customizable complex interfaces in order to achieve a comprehensive environment which constitutes a [[Nolan|Life dashboard]]. It should be sufficient, instead, to create nifty, simple, minimal, low-level, iper-specific and iper-personal scripts that allow to preserve some crucial characteristics:
1. having most of the important data (and metadata!) in [[Ode to plain text|plain text]], so that there is no need to go through painful, stressful and long importing or exporting practices which go beyond the use of [[Pandoc]];
2. improving basic coding skills by refining and updating scripts, in order to make them better.
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The only, huge, drawback is that the extreme specificity of such scripts leads to a very poor if not non-existent usability for other people. The user-base would be me, and me only.
Furthermore, while technical knowledge and skills to build local-first scripts in [[Bash]] or [[Python]] for [[Cheat sheets|CLI]] are quite accessible to a non-developer like I am, anything that involves [[Server|servers]] and APIs becomes too hard to handle. In any case, no solution would be perfect and completely future-proof, though.