Dave has another great post, in which he sets out design wishes and requirements.

 His design specs have often been very close to the fundamental underpinnnings of the tool we are busy building.

From this blog post:


I see the blog, and at a broader level the 'tabs' of our personal content management system, our 'filing cabinet', as nothing more than 'addresses' or destinations to send content to.

So although Microsoft would have us believe that 'saving' a document or message, 'sending' a document or message to someone else, and 'publishing' a document or message to a blog or website, are three fundamentally different functions and applications, I see them as conceptually indistinguishable -- they're all actions that move content from one specific space to another.

That's why I have proposed a single, intuitive Workspace Manipulation and Document Annotation tool to replace virtually every application users have on their PCs today, a tool that would finally make PCs accessible to the billions of technologically challenged among us.


Our tool does this, we believe - it acts as an "information pivot", allowing the user to move information how and where she wants.