[Rimintil]

> The process of moving from App to App generates friction that takes you out of flow and distracts you from your intentions.

Please tell me why my workflow, which works for me, sucks more. What is this magical 'friction'?

Reads like it was written by an MBA.

[catchmeifyoucan]

Okay, consider you have 3 apps: gmail, slack and google docs

In gmail, you have a shipping confirmation, a calendar invite, and a team newsletter.

In slack you have a question from a customer, a review request from the team, and a poll for the next offsite.

And in Docs, you have a new project summary, a budget proposal, and a post-mortem doc.

You see, how you actually have 9 different things to do (intentions), but the number of apps you have is just 3? Sometimes, you'll have a thread of things across multiple apps. So despite switching "apps" there's still mental overhead of piecing things together. It's easy to overlook, but sometimes switching apps can causes an effect like walking into a new room, and forgetting why you were there in the first place. Hurting your focus/flow.

[ilyt]

.... so from MBA that also doesn't know browser tabs exist.

Also OS doesn't fix any of that, especially for the webapps as they tend to not integrate well with anything else

[BearOso]

So just add all the apps' functions to emacs and we're golden. Got it.

[egypturnash]

According to the "read more" link in the "humane" section(1), this friction seems to happen because the guy who came up with this proposal is painfully ADHD.

1: https://uxdesign.cc/introducing-mercury-os-f4de45a04289

[elzbardico]

Not an MBA, but an UX folk, an equally dangerous but different species