How about if standard OS windows had little nodes along their sides you could click and drag to obtain a hose through which data could be pored into other windows by connecting to their nodes?

On forming a connection you see a list of compatible inter-app I/O pairs https://twitter.com/bbchase/status/1320108419395760128">https://twitter.com/bbchase/s...

Maybe so for instance you could extend a hose out of a particular browser tab with e.g. twitter open and connect it to a text editor and data from the twitter api just pours into the text editor

I want my desktop to look like this:

Just & #39;zoom out& #39; one level and this more abstract inter-app UI gets phased in, so that during normal use the wires don& #39;t obstruct