{"id":61,"date":"2010-07-18T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=61"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:22:25","slug":"thunderbird-gets-better-and-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird gets better and better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I decided to upgrade my <strong>Thunderbird<\/strong> 3.0.3 to <strong>3.1<\/strong>. It keeps <strong>positively surprising me<\/strong> every time I do an upgrade with its interface enhancements. I wanted to write about its <strong>search facility<\/strong> which was introduced with the version 3 but I never got to it since I wanted to film its usage. Maybe one day. Nonetheless its indexing <strong>copes with 5 email accounts over IMAP and 20.000+ messages<\/strong>. It&#8217;s amazing! Actually I changed my management from filing email to piling. But more on this issue in one of the future entries.<\/p>\n<p>Main <strong>interface changes and features I like in TB3<\/strong> are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>indexing and search<\/strong> in real time with a time scale helps me find even 10 years old emails (I have not idea and control of what I have in 30 folders or so) in seconds<\/li>\n<li>emails can be now opened in <strong>tabs<\/strong> which I thought I would be using more but I actually have two tabs: one for email and one for <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5423317\/run-google-wave-inside-thunderbird-3\">Wave<\/a>; searching results and tools are always opened in a new tab and emails from search results as well which is a good thing not interfering with normal email view<\/li>\n<li><strong>threaded discussion<\/strong> of search results: when opening an email as a search results, TB tries to show it in context with other emails in the same thread (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citeulike.org\/user\/Mandre\/article\/100219\">context is very important for reminding and re-finding<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>the move of Reply<\/strong>, Forward &#8230; buttons <strong>to the email header<\/strong> instead of them being on the main toolbar (I know a lot of people did not like this change but IMHO the Reply button is a part of a message and not a part of the main toolbar)<\/li>\n<li>really neat <strong>filtering messages <\/strong>on a folder bases (introduced in 3.1)<\/li>\n<li>new <strong>simplified account setup wizard in one window<\/strong> (I newer understood why entering name, email address, password, incoming and outgoing servers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.student.upr.si\/navodila\/?site=nastavitve_outlook\">NEEDED 5 steps PROCEDURE in 5 WINDOWS<\/a>), while I do not like it when it wants to find server names by itself I can still stop the process and do it manually<\/li>\n<li><strong>column headings<\/strong> can be set and emails ordered by <strong>on a folder basis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>entering people I write to in address book automatically (this was a part of TB2 already) and <strong>simplified entering and inline editing address book entries<\/strong> by simply clicking a star by sender&#8217;s or recipients&#8217; names (instead of opening address book, searching for an entry and editing it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With such simplifications of interface I always remember the typical HCI question I use to ask students: <em>how to create the easiest interface to a converter &#8211; e.g. from Fahrenheit to Celsius and vice verse.<\/em> One field and no buttons do suffice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/tb3.png\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t use smart folders and archiving options. But that&#8217;s part of my<br \/>\nemail management practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I decided to upgrade my Thunderbird 3.0.3 to 3.1. It keeps positively surprising me every time I do an upgrade with its interface enhancements. I wanted to write about its search facility which was introduced with the version 3 but I never got to it since I wanted to film its usage. Maybe&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[108,109,110],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-pim-research","tag-108","tag-google","tag-refind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}