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I'm always underwhelmed by these things because I think they are solving the opposite problem to the one that needs to be solved. The basic premise is that it's possible to pick a collection of important things and put them on one screen. And it's interesting from their example how poor that selection is: there's a huge amount of space wasted on time, there's a specious graph of inbox depth and a useless graph of sent emails.<p>I believe that rather than gathering information together in one place we are far better served by ambient information (a small example: <a href="http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from-hacked.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from...</a> and my as yet unwritten up ambient weather display). Then information that's useful becomes part of the environment.<p>So, then I ask myself why this has been upvoted so much. And I think the answer is because it _looks good_. It's all shining and new-car-smell.