What is the end game of CRIMPing? (Warning: Meta Thread)

Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 21, 2017 at 10:07 AM

While that’s true (the lifestyle for adult children thing), it appears that CRIMPing is also a very broad category. I use various tools discovered in the process of CRIMPing to do various different things. I suppose it would be wonderful if I could do everything (task management, note taking, research, authoring, quick reminders, collaboration and so on) in a single piece of software. But then a BIG question becomes: just how massive and unwieldy would such a thing be? There are some comprehensive solutions already available in the form of online services. But I don’t want to use online services all (or even any) of the time, and I certainly don’t want to build something on which, let’s face it, my life would ultimately depend on such an online service.

I would prefer to tinker around with various slim, efficient, elegant CRIMPing solutions, putting together workflows that are easy to remember, fast to use, and aesthetically enjoyable (yes, I do think the UX is a significant factor in one’s enjoyment of specific solutions. I may be a bit weird - okay, so I probably am a bit weird - but I get a lovely warm glow when I use a particularly well-thought-out program feature.)

But a part of me - a pure, idealistic part that remembers back to certain super-fast solutions I used long before GUIs became the norm - still longs for the ultimate all-in-one solution. Perhaps the next version of Notebooks, once Alfons has finished programming it?

See? A CRIMPer’s work is never done… (and yes, I do mean that ironically!)

Cheers,
Bill