Maybe we should build more personal software in the text:
For navigation, the Cat featured leap keys: two rose-colored keys below the spacebar. You could press and hold one while typing a sequence of characters to “teleport” to the nearest instance of that pattern. The left leap key would take you back, the right leap key would take you forward.
User conventions emerged to support life within this system. Users would implement their own navigational systems using special characters, tags, “@keywords”, and consistent date and timestamp formats that would work well with the leap keys.
— Alexander Obenauer, Recreating the Canon Cat Document Interface
At the least, we’re probably over-indexed on scripts gluing files together, spreadsheets, and ideologies that expand into multi-hour courses.