Embark: A Computational Outliner for Travel Planning

Explore a groundbreaking prototype called Embark in this 26-minute conference talk from ACM SIGPLAN's LIVE23 event. Discover how this computational outliner revolutionizes travel planning by allowing users to perform the entire process within a single outline document enriched with computational tools. Learn how Embark enables the mixing of freeform text with references to external data and the authoring of dynamic formulas for pulling in information like weather forecasts and routing details. Understand how this innovative approach supports a wide variety of travel use cases, from short weekend trips to extensive RV road trips, all within a single medium. Gain insights into the potential of unbundling apps into data, computations, and views that can be flexibly composed by users to meet their unique goals, addressing the limitations of modern software organized into separate applications with limited cross-boundary composition.