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Message Notes for Next actions in Thunderbird

Mozilla Update :: Extensions — More Info:Message Notes – User Comments

Ah!! Message Notes does work with Thunderbird 1.5  It is a great thing to have as it enable me to add the Next Action GTD style.  I like the idea of an Icon that others mention in this forum, that would help me know which emails have the NA!

How to make it work for 1.5

by CyberAnth, Tuesday, January 17 2006

–Download the .xpi file. –Change the .xpi extension to .zip and unzip it. (NOTE: an .xpi is basically a .zip file!). There will be a chrome folder and one file called install.rdf. –Open install.rdf in Notepad and make the change that the poster below says. –Make a zip file of the chrome folder and the install.rdf file you just edited, and then change the extension to .xpi –Install using the Extensions interface in Thunderbird. –You are done.

Thanks! to all who contributed to this and for the edit tip!!

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Email Like Water

I think I am a bit of a Ninja at email and many of the things here:Recap: Becoming an Email Ninja | 43 FoldersSound ok, but there is an underlying idea that email = waste of time.

Wrong.

Some email is a waste of time and some is valuable.

The art is to sort it, not postpone it, avoid it or to have email free hours or days.

I use Thunderbird and use many of the features: filters, flags, and customised Labels and "Search folders". I used to have an extension called "Message Notes" but it does not work with Thunderbird 1.5. Still hoping looking for an equivalent. The sorting happens vertically into folders and what I think of as "horozontally" by multiple tags in a variety of ways.

I apply the six GTD workflow steps. Collecting; (that is easy they just arrive). Processing; most of that is automatic using the software. Organising; doing if it is under 2 min, deleting delegating, organising includes includes linking to Address books, Mind-Maps and the Calendar and thinking about the the associated NAs and alerts reminders needed. Then there is the Reviewing Doing.

As I write this I realise there is philosophy needed to do this well, GDT is part of it, "email like water" also a notion that online communication is deeply revlolutionary for the psyche. This stuff matters.

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Palm Has Graffiti 1 Back

Graffiti (Palm OS) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ah, just learned about this a year late, it is good news! I could never get used to Graffiti 2, but I converted back to 1 on my T|3. I wonder what it will mean? I still really like Graffiti and would like it on my Tablet!

~

See this site for a good way to do Graffiti: Palm Graffiti

Note particularly the way the D is done

and how that loop repeats in various orientations with K Y X + “&” * and it can be used for 8 as well.

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conferences.oreillynet.com/etech

Technorati: Search for http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/ The O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference is of course being blogged as it happens, and it is not over as I write. I hope Doug Kaye is there & I look forward to the IT conversations. ( Yes he’s there! ) For now it is blog cruising.

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – What’s Wrong with Podcasting?

AC/OS: Rules from O’Reilly

All the Pages Are My Days :: eTech05: Building Contentcentric Apps

Susan Mernit’s Blog: eTech flow

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – ETech 2005 Trip Report: Web Services as a Strategy for Startups: Opening Up and Letting Go

Boing Boing: ETECH Notes: Web Services as a Strategy for Startups

onfocus.com | ETech Day 1

Here are the photos.

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Did you like the cool clip?

I loved listening to William Gibson in that last post of mine! Doug Kaye – is that your invention? Genius. Now how can I set it up so that we can do that from my podcasts? Parhaps Evan Williams is on to that? But no ads!

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Another Great IT Conversation – Jerry Fiddler

I have been listening to Jerry Fiddler the Windriver owner. Very interesting on the whole direction of the future. Intersection of biology and engineering. He mentions Steven Webber Success of Open Source 5stars – a Political Scientist from Berkeley who is saying that Open Source is a new mode of production.

I think I have said that here on the blog a few times, but I recently also though how public works are a very similar mode. To create something all capitalists benefit from, but none could really own, at least initially, the state steps in: space, roads, education and so on.

It seems that Open Source creates those things that may be like that – Linux for example competes with MS but is really a sort of road for many enterprises who should & could not just use proprietary roads, they need to share roads.

Still, it is a different mode of production. But not one that is necessarily going to create a new revolutionary class, as new modes such as industrialisation did.

(I will tidy these email posts up later) – Tuesday, 25 January 2005 — now done!

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Another Day

Of course these days are *yesterday* by some standard… as it is already well past midnight as I write. A much more sleepy day but still did some stuff…

thunderbird

Just been importing mail from Forte Agent into Thunderbird. Works well, both share the same unix format… no that is not right, I can “Save messages as” in a unix format. Mozilla then makes its own additional files in the Profile. Nice. Before that added Mozilla Thunderbird to my Second Copy backup Profiles. Will do another backup after importing more mail.

Before that Kate & I listened to a Dawn & Drew Show that was fun.

Dawn & Drew

In the afternoon I did some errands and finished up sitting in the Merivale Coffee Culture listening to more Podcasts, the best one was The Dysons (though Esther was not there).

The Dysons

That Coffee Culture business impresses me – though the coffee at Merivale is not as good as at some of the other outlets – that must be a worry for the chain.

Back further in the day I did a mailout for Kate Tapley Horse Treks – our Christmas Special Voucher offer! We now have almost 300 people on our list – all opt in at the time of the ride plus a few who sub from the web. Woosh would not let me send it out! Had to log on to Ihug.

BTW – love that Woosh.

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Archetypes of Cyberspace

My essay is more or less done:

HTML file – best for reading on the web – move back and forth to footnotes with links.

RTF file – best for printing – right click to download and to read in Word etc.

This is version 0.31, the one I presented at NZAP on 13 November. I am still working on this and I will update the file from time to time till done.

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