[Cuis-dev] Does anyone know of a Redis client in Cuis?

[Rafi Khan]

Hi Juan,

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 6:12 AM Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st> wrote:

>
> Cool. Nice addition to the Cuis ecosystem.

Thank you, appreciating the warm community and encouragement :)

>
> BTW, if you want to tell a bit about the app you are writing in Cuis,
> that would be nice.

Absolutely, happy to share.

For now, I don't have a good way of really communicating my ideas. I
really need to build it and show a demo.

But it is not too far from some of the visions of the Dynabook.
Actually, seeing that Cuis heralds itself as a keeper of the Dynabook
spirit was and continues to be one of the reasons that I am sticking
close to Cuis even when sometimes I find a task may be more easily
achieved using Pharo (in the short term).

Back to my project idea.

I have for a long time been unsatisfied with different task managers
and knowledge management systems. I have extensively used many, and
trialed others. Ultimately, what I have found is that every
application only has some of what I want, even if that some is most,
and many of those are closed source so there is no hope for the tool
to eventually match my workflow. I have built a few minimal systems
for todo and notes management, using windows and other metaphors to
allow a layout that can be user customised. But over time I realised
that I can add as many metaphors as I want on the top, but what I was
really yearning for was not an application but a programming
environment. I get the sense, from reading about the Dynabook, that it
has some thoughts along the same lines.

For now, what I am trying to do is to build a basic todo and task
manager in Cuis smalltalk and then share it with a few friends who
appreciate flexible organisation tools. Once I have a few people using
it, I intend to use their feedback as well as my own to incrementally
improve the system.

In my own notes, the project is dubbed "GBCE" for a Gesture based
computing environment. This is more of a longer term goal. Eventually
I want to port the application to an android tablet and use pen input
as well as some modal metaphors with touch input to build a fluid,
gesture based programmable information management system. I had built
a small prototype in Godot but eventually was missing the smalltalk
dynamic programming model, and so I started looking for a good
open-source smalltalk which led me to Cuis.

For now this is the best way I can explain my idea :) I will share
demos/screenshots as I progress.

Please feel free to ask any questions and share any ideas you may have as well.
I love talking about these kinds of projects, thought not everyone is
always interested in hearing about it :)

Best,
Rafi
rafi at rafikhan.io