Imagine a keyboard-shortcut-macro-enhanced-command-line-learn-by-example widget on steroids, that “does the right thing” when appropriate. It is fast, simple, keyboard-centric, and appears to address the challenge I laid down in my Outloook Calendar Widget Challenge (hey Humanized: check it out and tell me if you’ve got a solution to that).
This is absolutely what the doctor ordered. KMi’s Laurian Gridinoc tipped me off today about Humanized.com’s launch of Enso, and it looks to me like Enso rocks!
In fact, it sort of reminds me of something from my past. Only by chance did I discover that the relationship is not accidental. I was already hooked on Enso, and starting to write this commentary, when I discovered by chance browsing that one of the key people behind it is Aza Raskin, son of Jef who was such a big influence on me when I lived in his house in Southern California, and whom I wrote about previously to celebrate his inventiveness and jocularity here and here.
I see from the Humanized site that Enso is dedicated to Jef’s memory: this is a fantastic tribute, and I wish Humanized all the best of luck with this exciting product! Congratulations, guys!
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January 25, 2007 at 5:53 pm
The idea of getting users closer to the power of their computer with less clicks than ever, is without any doubt a winning one. Not a new one, though. Mac users would say so, I suspect. Quicksilver [http://docs.blacktree.com/quicksilver/what_is_quicksilver] has been available FOR FREE since quite a long time ago, and does all that perfectly, according to the philosophy of “act without doing” (i love that one
….. wasn’t Jef Raskin related to apple?
January 26, 2007 at 7:56 am
Thanks, Mikele, will check it out; re Jef: he was more than ‘related’ to Apple: he created the original Macintosh! See those entries I linked to in the posting…