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Wow wow wow, I really enjoyed this one:
Reinventing How We Use Computers
especially this:
All those points made me realise that a true Forever Computer should be built "keyboard first". The keyboard should be the most important part, with a housing for travel. The same housing could host a small screen, possibly an e-ink one. While travelling, that would allow you to read deeply (with the screen in your hand, like an e-reader) or to attach it to the keyboard to write while not being absorbed by the screen. You separate the action of reading and writing instead of being always between two chairs.
I can't say I completely understand that (i.e. as fully intended), but it hit me that the script I showed herein:
accomplishes a decent degree of "keyboard first", because if/when you're staring at just a terminal session, that script takes text up to hitting <enter>, at which point the script appends what was typed to a file, then clears the screen. Yes, that implies possibly being less effective in subsequent sentences for not having previous sentences to immediately look back upon. But it also removes what can (for me, anyway) be the *distraction* of previous sentences. There are many times I'd rather be "moving on" and piecing it all together during an editing phase (which is always necessary anyway) than constantly burdened with keeping what I'm typing *now* perfectly consistent with what I typed moments/minutes/hours ago.
I mean, maybe that's irrelevant to some/many/most others, or perhaps sounds downright silly (if not insane..), but I'm starting to think I might practice writing everything that way to see of it really does entail less distraction - never mind strengthening memory for not having the crutch of being able to look back at previous sentences immediately.