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oldany@lemmy.world 3 days agoYeah that makes sense — treating a folder as the universal entry point is a clever way to unify things.
I think that’s exactly the direction: trying to reduce everything to a single “drop zone”.
Where I personally kept feeling friction is that you still need something in between to get things into that folder (scripts, gestures, automations, etc.).
So the entry point becomes “save to this folder”, but the way you get there still depends on context.
That’s the part I always found hard to make truly uniform.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Let’s try this a different way…
How do you want to indicate something should be retained? What is the single, physical act you want to perform to tell the operating system “this thing needs to be captured”?
oldany@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s a really good way to frame it.
I kept coming back to the idea that the “act” shouldn’t be something new you have to learn — it should reuse what you’re already doing in each context.
So instead of one single physical gesture, it’s more like a single intent expressed through different native actions:
The key (for me) wasn’t forcing one gesture, but making all of those feel like the same action underneath.
So the mental model becomes: “this goes into my inbox”, regardless of how I triggered it.
That’s where things started to click for me.