A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
I love the collaborative features of Google Docs and Google Sheets.<p>The thing that&#x27;s missing from &quot;Google Docs&quot; is a decent collaborative outliner called &quot;Google Trees&quot;, that does to &quot;NLS&quot; and &quot;Frontier&quot; what &quot;Google Sheets&quot; did to &quot;VisiCalc&quot; and &quot;Excel&quot;.<p>And I don&#x27;t mean &quot;Google Wave&quot;, I mean a truly collaborative extensible visually programmable spreadsheet-like outliner with expressions, constraints, absolute and relative xpath-like addressing, and scripting like Google Sheets, but with a tree instead of a grid. That eats drinks scripts and shits JSON and XML or any other structured data.<p>Of course you should be able to link and embed outlines in spreadsheets, and spreadsheets in outlines, but &quot;Google Maps&quot; should also be invited to the party (along with its plus-one, &quot;Google Mind Maps&quot;).<p>More on Douglass Engelbart&#x27;s NLS and Dave Winer&#x27;s Frontier:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20425970" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20425970</a>