Archive for January, 2009

Information fragmentation – it’s the enemy

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

As I fight my usually losing battle to use my computer tools to get better organized, I've come to understand that the major enemy is information fragmentation. My world consists of emails, web bookmarks, calendar items, blog postings and comments, forum threads, to-do items, bugs, notes, files, contacts, projects, etc., ...

My kind of application needs a database

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

The last couple of weeks, I've been focused on killing some backend database bugs in Thunderbird that seemed to have popped up recently - including bugs 471682, 472446, and 471130. I've still got more database-related issues that I want to see solved before TB3. I am determined to make sure ...

Controlling notification with filters

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Today I will write in a more practical direction, describing how to setup Thunderbird with MesQuilla extensions to control notification. Under stock Thunderbird, notification of arriving emails (sometimes called BIFF) may be controlled in two ways - and both of these are system-wide settings. These features are controlled from the General/Options ...

More progress on soft tags

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

I added enough functionality to TaQuilla this week to make it fully functional as a soft-tagging extension. I'm now running it regularly in my main profile, though I am only soft tagging for Personal at the moment. I'm very happy with how well the statistics are working, as it seems ...

Soft tags (TaQuilla) are starting to look exciting

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Today for the first time I am able to run TaQuilla on my main email profile. This extension uses the same statistical bayesian filters used for spam detection, to instead automatically apply tags to emails. My initial trials are very encouraging. I enabled soft tags on a "Personal" tag, to track ...