Right, Owen. I will try to mock it up. But perhaps not immediately. My thought was to take one of the recent FRIAM orgies and organize it "by hand" as I think it should be when it has been processed by the program I hope to invent for myself (stifled laughter in the background). Somebody has encouraged me to look into "regular expression." I used to be pretty good at word macros and perhaps I can put those things together. But first I have to solve the problem of getting the whole email messages, with their headers, into a Word file. You have been most helpful, and I will get back to you when I have conquered that problem. Somebody has suggested that this would all be easier of I cc'ed my entire mail archive to a gmail account. Perhaps gmail doesn't keep its headers in separate file? But I am overwhelmed with other stuff right now and shouldn't even be on email.
N From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:46 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Preserving email correspondence Nick: could you do me a favor? After all the input, could you sorta play "scenarios" or "prototypes"? These are common design practices that take an idea and actually mock it up. Scenarios include "workflow" .. i.e. how the design is used on a daily, weekly, and archive basis. Prototypes are a crude model of the design. The Treo .. the first widespread PDA, started out life as blocks of wood of various sizes carried around .. in pockets, purses, hands etc .. to determine the appropriate size and form factor. It included paper for "writing" (leading to Graffiti, the first touch writing trick) and "memory" (the paper wound around the block of wood. Designers think that way and have huge success. I think you're on to something but it has to be taken out of the idea realm into the tangible to make the next step. BTW: Fabio once said that much of the stuff on Friam should be a blog. And a very early "electronic community", The Well, actually published some of their stuff. -- Owen
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