Re:One Thing Well – A weblog about simple, useful software
by 1tw on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:42AM
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> I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.
There are hundreds of posts about those sorts of applications in the archives[0], but the focus of the site tends to drift about a lot depending on what I'm up to/interested in at a given time.
> Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user.
That's definitely a problem, and after chatting with some readers on Twitter recently I'm making more of an effort to 'translate' jargon and buzzwords in software descriptions.
[0] See, e.g., http://onethingwell.org/tagged/todo
I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.
Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user. For example, "Cram is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial’s unified test format."
Simple is in the eye of the beholder.