My name is Danilo Savioni, and I have worked for many years as a Medical Radiologic Technologist. Technology has always been part of my professional life, but my passion for computers goes back much further, to the 1980s, when I discovered a world I would never really stop following.
I am not a programmer by training. For a long time, I had clear ideas and projects in my head, but not the technical tools needed to turn them into real software.
LightTreeFM was born from exactly that: a long-standing desire to build the file manager I had always wanted to use on my Amiga, ever since 1988.
From an idea to real software
With the arrival of artificial intelligence tools, the distance between idea and implementation suddenly became much shorter. I began designing, experimenting, making mistakes, correcting them and, above all, learning. What started almost as a personal experiment gradually grew into a much broader, more complex and structured project.
Many of LightTreeFM’s features come from one very simple question:
How would I want this to work if I had to use it every day?
That question also shaped the way I approached its interface: starting from the gesture, from the user’s natural action, from the metaphor capable of distilling a technical function into something immediate and human.
The ideas, the tools and the process
Artificial intelligence has played a fundamental role in the creation of LightTreeFM, but not in its conception. Every function, every interface detail and every logical flow begins with one of my ideas, then translated into code through a continuous process of interaction with AI tools.
Nothing was simply “left for the machine to decide.” LightTreeFM has grown through countless tests, changes, rethinkings and refinements, often repeated until what I saw on the screen finally matched what I had imagined.
A project shaped by community
The development of LightTreeFM is also the result of discussions and collaboration with other members of the Amiga community, who over time have contributed suggestions, testing, observations and ideas. A special thanks goes to Martin Eriksson, creator of the logo and icons, who also guided and advised me on the project’s graphic and visual direction. His contribution has been invaluable, and I am deeply grateful to him.
For me, LightTreeFM represents something deeply personal: an idea that remained in my mind for decades and that has finally found a way to become real.
It is my small contribution to the Amiga community and, above all, the fulfilment of a dream that began in front of an Amiga many years ago.