> I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.
There are hundreds of posts about those sorts of applications in the archives[0], but the focus of the site tends to drift about a lot depending on what I'm up to/interested in at a given time.
> Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user.
That's definitely a problem, and after chatting with some readers on Twitter recently I'm making more of an effort to 'translate' jargon and buzzwords in software descriptions.
There are hundreds of posts about those sorts of applications in the archives[0], but the focus of the site tends to drift about a lot depending on what I'm up to/interested in at a given time.
> Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user.
That's definitely a problem, and after chatting with some readers on Twitter recently I'm making more of an effort to 'translate' jargon and buzzwords in software descriptions.
[0] See, e.g., http://onethingwell.org/tagged/todo