I strongly appreciate a single-application single-tasking environment, because it forces you into a totally different mindset from the flurry of activity and noise one always has on an everyday “multitasking” computing environment these days.  But since most of my day is spent completely surrounded by multiple applications all vying for my attention, I’ve come to expect to be able to swap my attention around whenever I want.

But there are situations and applications which explicitly deny multitasking.

Seriously.

See also:

• Pen and Paper

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