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+## Features to implement
+### some of the features that i want to implement next
+
+- time speed adjustment
+- pause and resume time
+- label of current real time
+- label of current plot time
+- hover tooltip for data points
+- data input system 
+- multiple panels that can be toggled on and off
+    - use extension scaffolding src as example  https://github.com/MoebiusSolutions/extension-scaffold/tree/main
+    - possibly use ES directly, but ideally make own system if it can be better and simpler
+- config panel
+
+## Systems - dividing up concerns in a sensible, performant, and easy-to-maintain-and-work-with way
+### my initial thinking on the concerns of different architectural components. this very well may change, and each thing does not necessarily map to its own file or even its own class. 
+
+- local configuration: read a config file
+- state management:
+    - user preferences
+    - service config (websocket url, remote api endpoints)
+    - UI config (what panels acive, )
+    - database stuff
+    - plots (which attributes of which input data-type are which graph axes, current time range viewable, )
+    - data input stuff (structure of input datapoints, source, metadata)
+    - health (service connections, framerate, db access)
+    - 
+- application event system (to notify of state updates)
+- rendering
+- input data processing
+- HID input handling
+    - input controller maps 
+- plot handling
+- DB handling
+- disk handling 
+- service handling (websockets, mqtt, HTTP REST)
+
+## Some important data structures used in the program
+
+- input actions: a set of "single action that the user can perform"
+- user input: a single event of user input via hardware like key press or click or move joystick
+- input action map: a map of "set of "user input"" => "input action" 
+- ui element definition: 
+
+### Notes
+- we will need a good system for state management, as the state will grow fairly large, including things like user preferences, UI config (what panels are displayed),
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