Just a comment on @khinsen’s mention of Miller Columns as a retricted view of temporality in a computer interaction (file browsing) and how I have also experience it in GToolkit and web browsing via TiddlyWiki themes as those used on our TTRPG wiki and the one for (part of) Colombian Amazonas linguistic revitalizing project and is that after having this temporal dimension, even in a limited form, interactions that don’t account for some kind of temporality seems lacking.
And I think that some kind of mapping of time into space can be achieved by learning the lessons of how the comic medium does this by arranging into a 2D canvas the disposition of card like interfaces/elements that organize into space(s) some kind of time interaction, as is done with Miller Columns, but even taking the metaphor beyond as some narrative card games do or like is being proposed in conceptual interfaces like the one of OLLOS, WonderOS or MercuryOS. And, as TiddlyWiki and Hypercard before have shown, maybe those card like interfaces (I call them Interfaz Tarjetual, playing with some computing terms and Spanish) are powerful enough to allow high composability unavailable in current apps, while providing a simple enough tactile metaphor for improved learnablity.
I would like to explore deeper those card-like interfaces in my next malleable wiki engine.
^up: A Firelights solo play, taken from https://youtu.be/mwqP3EhVX3M
^up: OLLOS: An itemized personal computing timeline.
^ up: From Hello, Operator, WonderOS operator manual.
^up: From MercuryOS.