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Molly Mielke
@mollyfmielke
kinda crazy how bad search is in most software. search is arguably one of the most straightforward ways that computers can augment human intelligence — yet we expect nothing more than clunky, poorly ranked, literal search, and chase after the newest niche feature trend instead
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Molly Mielke
@mollyfmielke
you know that uneasy feeling you get when you're searching for something in a tool but you're unsure of the exact words? yeah, that shouldn’t be an issue. nor should you have to use numerous filters or learn a program's search operators just to find things
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Molly Mielke
@mollyfmielke
what if search were taken seriously as a tool for thought and we genuinely trusted it to help us find everything that we needed? perhaps it would adapt itself to how you use it, proactively find relevant things for you, etc. tl;dr: our brains need more lil librarian friends
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
Ah, neat! It probably does need to be OS X specific. In my prototype it was very important to be able to tap into low-level window server, IOHID hooks, accessibility bits to get the data. Even had a component monkey-patching AppKit at runtime via a kext…
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
Not much more to tell, honestly! I spent a bunch of time poking around with low-level OS X APIs, determined that it would be possible, started sketching search designs, then backburnered it to focus on memory systems!
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