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I so want this to be a real product.
Seems like it must do something at night... when the ice weasels come.
Question is, what do I actually need? Perhaps an add-on for Thunderbird to protect my PC-using friends/co-workers from things that won't bother my Mac?
Actually more than that, I want something for task management that can associate to-do's with specific emails/message threads and/or bookmarked webpages. And it should allow me to get at the other two from any starting point.
Question is, what do I actually need? Perhaps an add-on for Thunderbird to protect my PC-using friends/co-workers from things that won't bother my Mac?
Actually more than that, I want something for task management that can associate to-do's with specific emails/message threads and/or bookmarked webpages. And it should allow me to get at the other two from any starting point.
I’m giggly.
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Inappropriate?Your post is very confusing. It seems you wish Mozilla to create a new product, but you don't know what would be a good product, so you'd like to toss out some ideas. Let me see if I'm getting what you're saying:
You want an add on for Thunderbird to protect others from files that won't hurt your mac? Are you forwarding viruses around willingly but don't know they're viruses because you're using a mac? I don't get it.
Secondly, you'd like a calendar application that will link with bookmarked webpages (certain urls) and certain e-mail messages? Is the desire more so to see "there is a related event" when viewing an e-mail, or the ability to jump to a specific e-mail in Thunderbird (I'm guessing) from the calendar/todo application? As well, do you want a "related event/todo" to appear when browsing your bookmarks menu?
I'm not saying I can make any of this happen, just trying to understand your request.
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?Hi Thomas, this all started because I like the name. It's fun. So, I was thinking "what has Mozilla brought me in the past and what might I want in the future?" brainstorming about that.
The first was a throwaway idea - how would I know if I've picked up a Windows virus and protect my co-workers from forwarding it on? Not sure it's actually a real problem I have, or rather they potentially have.
The second starts from the premise that the majority of my to-do's originate in email, represent an overall task, and usually relate to a specific page or the completion of the task will require use of that page.
For example: an email from a customer with their new logo goes with the task "apply branding to customer Foo" and thus has the associated URL of Foo's site.
Note: though some tasks have associated calendar dates, most of my to-do's are "do as soon as you can, how's yesterday?", so chaining them to a calendar only makes me depressed about how many things I thought I'd do today that I didn't because of the 20 unplanned things that jumped the line.
The new app would be the task list. Ability to tie it into a calendar would be a nice-to-have.
From the task list I'd be able to jump to the related email(s) or thread(s) in Thunderbird and URL(s) in Firefox.
The list could show as a sidebar in Thunderbird or Firefox as well as floating as its own window or widget. The sidebar becomes the method of seeing the associated task/URL in Thunderbird and task/email in Firefox when I'm viewing the related email or URL respectively.
In addition to a title for the task, there should be a note space and maybe a priority scale. And an optional Due Date.
My progress on my to-do list would thereby race across the tundra, thanks to Ice Weasel. (We might need some kind of daily report of some sort, just so it could do something special at night. Hee.)
Thanks for mulling my wild ideas over! :)
I’m imagining cool things
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This is one of the best points
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The task list already exists in Lightning, an official extension to Thunderbird. -
Inappropriate?Ah! Critical information has been lost!
My post was put under the product "Mozilla Ice Weasel". That product has apparently been deleted on the nitpicky grounds that it doesn't - yet! - exist.
I’m sad about the loss of a joke, but happy about information quality control.
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This is one of the best points
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Iceweasel isn't a joke, it's the name for Firefox in linux distributions that do customization. They don't infringe upon the trademark that way.
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Oh! Darn those Linux kids getting the good names. Okay, well, can that name, now I'm all interested in this functionality I was describing.
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Check geticeweasel.org, heh. And like I said, you can use seamonkey for all that integration.
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Inappropriate?You might be interested in the Seamonkey Project for your integration of the todo/calendar with the e-mail client AND the web browser.
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