Eric Miller wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > >> David Huynh wrote: >> >>> On behalf of the Haystack group and Simile team, I'm happy to announce >>> the availability of "Seek", an extension to Mozilla Thunderbird (v2) >>> that implements faceted browsing features for browsing through email >>> more efficiently: >>> >>> http://simile.mit.edu/seek/ >>> >>> The screencast explains Seek in more details. >>> >> BTW, this is so awesome and so useful that it instantly became the >> SIMILE tool that, daily, I use the most. >> > And enough of a tool that its got me to seriously explore switching my > email client (which is perhaps the most difficult app for me to even > consider changing). 10K messages indexed no problem! > You're brave :-) The index is built by the same Javascript code that implements Exhibit's database.
>> Now if only one could "seek" more than one email folder at the same >> time... (seek on a 'smart folder' perhaps? or create virtual folders >> that are the sum of many?) >> > Right. How feasible is it to think of folders / smart-folders / recipes > as additional facets to choose from? > In Thunderbird, you can already create a virtual folder that combines several other folders. However, I'm running into a problem enumerating the messages inside virtual folders. I'll try to get help from the Mozilla folks. ----- I'm not sure if it's clear for other people, but this extension is my attempt at pointing out that Thunderbird would make an excellent platform for research on data-centric user interfaces / interactions, much as Firefox does. There are quite a number of research projects built on top of Firefox, but there are not as many on Thunderbird, and I'm hoping to change that. My Java-in-Firefox-embedding hack in Piggy Bank enabled a few Java-dependent research projects in Firefox, and I'm hoping that Seek would enable a few data-centric research projects in Thunderbird. David _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
