[JoBrad]

Because it's really convenient to be able to make a note on your phone or tablet, then access it and make additional post-meeting notes shortly thereafter, on a laptop, all in the same interface (so you have the same features, or at least a set of common features).

That's just one, assuming you never want formatting, tables, pictures, etc.

[TeMPOraL]

Oh Emacs does tables[0] better than anything out there, except maybe MS Excel. Definitely eats stuff like Evernote or Google Drive for breakfast.

[0] - http://orgmode.org/

[justinhj]

I love org mode but due to the fact that emacs doesn't run on my phone and Evernote does, I take notes on Evernote when I'm not at my computer

[zeveb]

> Because it's really convenient to be able to make a note on your phone or tablet, then access it and make additional post-meeting notes shortly thereafter, on a laptop, all in the same interface (so you have the same features, or at least a set of common features).

That's why I personally want emacs on my phone and tablet. I don't know yet the best way to expose its functionality with a touch interface, but it's still, hands-down the best way to edit information.

Maybe something where a tap in the minibar offers some sort of helm- or ido-like command-picking mode, and with taps on the side to enable quick execution of text-editing commands? I dunno, really.

> That's just one, assuming you never want formatting, tables, pictures, etc.

Emacs can handle formatting, tables and pictures if you want.

[ant6n]

Maybe we need some sort of unix on the web.

[straws]

More of a fun experiment than anything else, but the Pig Shell is worth playing with:

http://pigshell.com/

[TeMPOraL]

It's cool, but I always found such things to be cargo-culting and going in the completly wrong direction. You don't want to make a web shell, you want to use normal shell for web.

For a proper "Web UNIX" we need:

- websites talking in structured data (not just plain text)

- less propertiary bullshit (hint: keep sales & marketing people away from APIs)

- ability to conveniently pipe them together anywhere (not on a third-party, complexity-hiding, feature-limiting site like IFTTT)

When I can start typing things like these in my own, local shell:

  @twitter.com/me/tweets/latest | sort > tweets.log
  echo tweets.log | @facebook.com/me/post/new --activity "Feeling: Happy" --photo /tmp/HN.jpg

(where @ is a somewhat general web communication utility)

then we'll have a web UNIX.