Taskorienteddesktop

In the Scribo interview, Stéphane explains really well what we are looking at with Scribo. Let's sum it up again.

We are handling too many informations (documents, mails, web pages, ...). The desktop is just providing fairly isolated tools to handle these informations. The user is doing the link between all these informations. And there are more and more informations but the 100 000 000 000 of neurons in my head (and 1 000 000 000 000 000 synapses) are decreasing every day (and yes, we use 100% of them). And the desktop does not help us. It does not make the link between the mails, the document and the urls. We are using an application oriented desktop.

What we are developing, is a task oriented desktop. We want to provide a way for a user to handle at once all informations related to a given "task" (or context whatever you prefer). You want to work on the project FutureWorld ? Here are the mails, the files, the urls, the people, the music, .... that are related to this project.

As it would be terribly tedious to sort manually the information, we are going to use "semantic technologies" to propose (I swear it will not do it automatically, user will have full control) adequate sorting of the documents in the tasks.

A promise ? No, prototype soon to be available in the Scribo project. A rough one, but something usable. You will judge.