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For those trying to work out an alternative, I've found OnlyOffice desktop to be pretty good – it's quite similar to the Microsoft products, and fully compatible, but free.

That's specifically what I'm working on at Unternet [1], based on observing the same issue while working at Adept. It seems absurd that in the future we'll have developers building full GUI apps that users never see, because they're being used by GPU-crunching vision models, which then in turn create their own interfaces for end-users.

Instead we need apps that have a human interface for users, and a machine interface for models. I've been building web applets [2] as an lightweight protocol on top of the web to achieve this. It's in early stages, but I'm inviting the first projects to start building with it & accepting contributions.

[1] https://unternet.co/

[2] https://github.com/unternet-co/web-applets/

Unternet | Remote (anywhere) | Full-time & contract

Unternet (https://unternet.co) is a building a new, intelligent client for the web. We think a pivotal part of this is an open protocol for rich, AI-native apps, that everyone can build on and implement. We're a new startup, backed by Betaworks and Mozilla, and looking for our first hires.

We're looking for:

* Lead designer (full-time) – to create the next generation of interfaces

* Lead engineer (full-time) – to build the foundations of a new client for the web

* Open-source engineer (full-time, part-time or contract) – to steward our community & open-source efforts

Find us at https://unternet.co/careers and shoot me personally an email there!

For those interested, I've been working on something related to this, Web Applets – which is a spec for creating AI-enabled components that can receive actions & respond with state:

https://github.com/unternet-co/web-applets/

I’m not sure how this is an alternative to Typora, that seems misleading. Typora is a minimalist markdown editor, this is some sort of to-do app.

Now do one with Google Docs

I think this article misunderstands what productivity is and is trying to achieve.

Productivity is about achieving your goals with as little waste as possible, and getting things done. It's not about deciding what those goals are. That's not a slight on productivity, it's just what the word means.

This article isn't talking about productivity, it's talking about meaning & fulfilment. But the idea that deciding what you want out of your own life is some new thing (a "3.0" as opposed to something humans have been concerned about since the dawn of time) is a mistake.

So... I'm not sure if it really says anything.