Hello tbudl,
I have been a paid TheBat! user for about 7 years now and enjoy it so
much I have found ways to use it wherever I can, including here at my
work instead of {cringe} Outlook 2003. TB simplicity and power just
works better than any email client I have tried for when you just
need EMAIL. TB has the best editor I've used and I constantly am
Alt-L'ing replies of users using bad formatting clients. TheBat has
also been literally the ONE app (well two since my wife lives in
Quicken) that has kept me from trying to go MS Windows-free for a bit
as well as I just can't get myself to like anything else.
But being a user of TB I do sometimes find myself maybe possibly
wanting a more modern interface. I know to be careful for what I wish
for as too much deviation from what makes us all like TB may come
back to bite, but one can "wish" a little, right?
One thing I always really thought (and wished) RITlabs would do is
leave the old concept of email behind a little and possibly itself
pioneer the way we read and interact with email. Something that could
make a name for itself. I came across this IBM research site that
they have done for email and some of its interface and ideas sound
awesome. As much as I like TB, I would love to be using something
like what is shown at the site but done in the RitLabs/TB way
(meaning no bloat, good code, etc).
The site is: http://www.research.ibm.com/remail/index.html
I am not suggesting that TB start in the direction of taking on
Outlook/Notes in having Chat & Calendar (well maybe) in TB but more
of using some of the concepts presented in the inbox prototype which
email can become more efficient as we receive more and more each day.
Plus the presented interface looks ready for 2007 (and sweet) instead
of 2001 as TB still looks (still though not saying bad but just
saying).
I see TB 4.0 (well maybe 4.5) as a perfect time to maybe start to
head down the road less traveled.
Ideas, objections, thoughts?
Thanks
--
Scott Nasuta
Network Analyst
Art Institute of Las Vegas
702-992-8585
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