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I want to pose a design challenge to people interested in workflows and productivity. Call it a ribbonfarm millennium challenge X-prize ($100 prize if you actually nail it as judged by ribbonfarm editorial board jury): A system for supporting playflows. What do I mean by that?
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I did this in 2012 with a custom calendar app called Sand. You put your processes in a slidey dock at the bottom and dragged them onto the timeline of your day/week to design your timeline, or you could just click them to start. Once they opened, the processes contained various
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state—web tabs, writing documents, phone contacts. They also kept track of how long they were opened. There was a way that a neglected process could get more prominent. There was a special drag gesture for scheduling a process as a date with another person. You could—if you
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wanted—look at the processes together, and the time you spent in them/wanted to spend, and judge if this is the kind of life you were into. "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives."
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