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1. p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵ (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2017 07:44:59 UTC p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵

   BeOS (and now Haiku) implements e-mail like this: the list of e-mails is just your file browser; Haiku's "attributes" provides e-mail specific columns. Opening one of those files launches a viewer app. (Usually 'Mail' but the user can change it)

   Your address book? Also just a directory, with address-book-appropriate "attributes."

   Your music library? Same

   I think it's tragic that we've abandoned this kind of convergence to work within a powerful hierarchical data-table browser widget.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2017 09:25:04 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @pho4cexa Huh. Be/Haiku is more Plan 9-like than I've previously realized then.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2017 00:36:13 UTC Hallå Kitteh
     @pho4cexa I haven't used p9 myself, but what I'm thinking of is how e.g. the windowing system is "just files" and how the described mail system also utilizes the file system as the interface.
     
     The attributes that make the directory have special columns etc doesn't sound very p9 though, that's a unique Be concept I guess.