Greetings,
On 6 Aug 2015, at 5:13, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
Hi MailMate users,
if you haven't already noticed it then there is a new bundle available
in the Bundles preferences pane. Its name is “Visualize” and its
main purpose is to make cool visualizations of email history and
trends. After enabling it in the Bundles preferences pane then you
should have two new menu items in the Command menu. Select a (large)
set of emails (⌘A) and then try them out. Don't forget to hover the
mouse over various parts of the images to get more info.
The bundle was created by Sherif Soliman (thanks!) with a bit of my
help and it's **work-in-progress**. If you have feature requests or
any issues to report then use the [Github
issues](https://github.com/sheriferson/Visualize.mmBundle/issues)
page. General remarks can be sent to this list where Sherif is also
available. [Github](https://github.com/sheriferson/Visualize.mmBundle)
is also where the main repository resides in case you want to
contribute to the bundle or you want to check out a cutting-edge
version (the bundle available via the Bundles preferences pane is my
fork of the bundle).
Currently the bundle uses Safari to display an HTML page. This page
uses the [D3.js](http://d3js.org) JavaScript library to do the
visualizations. Sherif also added some buttons to save the results as
image files. You can see some examples on the [Github
page](https://github.com/sheriferson/Visualize.mmBundle). I was
actually a bit surprised to see that “View ▸ Distortion Mode”
works, but I guess that's quite convenient :-)
I had a lot of fun analyzing the mailing list and my sent messages. I
used MailMate to create smart mailboxes with various subsets of emails
and then I used the bundle to visualise the results. The following two
images are based on my Sent Messages mailbox (emails since I got my
own server as part of working on MailMate). The first one shows I
write almost half of my emails on Tuesday+Wednesday. The other one
shows that I don't like to write emails in the night unless I'm on
vacation in Thailand (February, 2013). You can even see that I rarely
write emails 18.00-20.00 (family time). It's also quite obvious that
the email “burden” has gotten worse over the years, but it appears
to have been at its “worst” late 2013 which is exactly when I did
the crowd funding campaign.
Note that the quality of the images has been reduced to allow
inclusion on the mailing list. It looks much better when using the
bundle.
This wasn't working for me. It turns out that it doesn't work when
using Chrome. Since Chrome is my default browser, that's what gets
called to show the graphs. If I then paste the URL into safari, it
works.
Christopher
Have fun!
Known “issues”:
* MailMate cannot not include children of collapsed items when calling
a command.
* For large selections of emails then the “Emails by Sender”
command needs some way to limit the number of “categories”. A
histogram with thousands of bars is not readable (but hovering with
the mouse still works quite well).
--
Benny
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