[dragonwriter]

> Whatever happened to the Unix philosphy? 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well'.

Its still a valid and important way of constructing software systems. But users mostly don't want a separate UI for each of those components, they want them strung together in a way which provides a simple experience that allows them to get the things they want to do done.

[d43594]

Then write a dashboard facility without polluting your existing applications by bolting barely related features onto them.

[dragonwriter]

> Then write a dashboard facility without polluting your existing applications by bolting barely related features onto them.

How is automatically recognizing meaning and surfacing action requests from email a "barely related" feature to an existing email client?