Saving Mental Bandwidth

We only have so much mental buffer space in which to juggle "things". At a certain point we get overloaded. Like a juggler with one ball too many we end up dropping things - a mental core dump. Miller's classic psychological study showed that our short term memory can cope with 7 plus or minus 2 things at a time. Maximising the throughput of this mental buffer is one of the design goals of The Goo. We need to swap things in and out quickly while not mentally overloading overselves. Many programming IDEs focus on the program as the only artefact that matters but while you're programming you often have to deal with other things: templates, files, SQL queries, databases, log files, web browsers, emails, real life etc. Everytime you switch contexts more buffer space is required. The Goo is designed to streamline context switching between "Things".