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Vote for Thunderbird extension / add-on ideas
Hello Everyone! The idea of this thread is to allow people to post ideas for add-ons or extensions for Thunderbird AND to allow people to vote on these ideas.
This way Mozilla and any developer/s working here could quickly see which ideas are wanted the most and include them in their work or create something completely new to address the want.
Let's just please follow these simple rules so it's all easy to track...
1. To post an idea, use the "reply" feature, NOT the "add a comment" feature
2. To vote for an idea, use the "add a comment" feature right below the idea you want to vote for, NOT the "reply" feature
Hope this helps build momentum for TB ideas! Thanks!
This way Mozilla and any developer/s working here could quickly see which ideas are wanted the most and include them in their work or create something completely new to address the want.
Let's just please follow these simple rules so it's all easy to track...
1. To post an idea, use the "reply" feature, NOT the "add a comment" feature
2. To vote for an idea, use the "add a comment" feature right below the idea you want to vote for, NOT the "reply" feature
Hope this helps build momentum for TB ideas! Thanks!
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?I would like to see a Thunderbird extension allowing the use of "voting." In Microsoft Outlook 2007 (I'm not sure if it's the same with earlier versions) there are buttons that appear when someone sends you an email with a voting option enabled. Basically, it's a convenient way for someone to find the general consensus without having their mailbox spammed. I use Thunderbird as my general email client, but whenever I receive an email asking me to vote, I'm forced to open Outlook once again. I would very much like to see someone make an addon so that Thunderbird would allow the user to vote in such emails. Thanks for the opportunity to suggest ideas for addons.
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Interesting idea! There are all kinds of "common interactions" that I'd love to see people experiment with, most likely with some combination of Tb extensions and websites. For example, it'd be nice to have a way to track question/answer pairs intelligently, so that unanswered questions were easy to keep track of, etc. -
Inappropriate?I would love to see Voting buttons added. They are a great way to manage the whole reply process. From my experience using them, they allow the sender to see a summary of the response. This "Tracking" screen is attached to the Sent copy. It lists all of the recipients of the email and their response - Yes, No, Maybe or an empty spot if they haven't answered. So you don't necessarily have to read thru a bunch of emails.
In Outlook there are several options for the type of Vote you request: Yes/No, Yes/No/Maybe or Approve/Reject. It would be nice to take it one step further and let the Sender define the options they wanted voted on. For example, maybe you're voting on a date for the company Holiday party. Yes/No and Approve/Reject don't quite cover it. But "Dec 1, Dec 8 or Dec 15" are more to the point.1 Comment Add a comment
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I'm gonna vote "FOR" this idea; it sounds really useful though I admit I've never used anything like it before. Haven't used outlook in years and have no intention to start now - better to make TB better than anything outlook could ever be!
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Inappropriate?I came across this site/discussion while looking for an addon. I just moved to Thunderbird from Outlook and love it. However, I was looking for the date of Father's Day and didn't have it. A holiday addon would be great.
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You're not looking for a holiday addon, you're looking for a calendar addon first. You need to install Mozilla Lightning and the Apple U.S. Holiday Calendar. Google for both, you can't link in comments.
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Inappropriate?I would really really like to see a Tasks add-on that can interact with my email something like this:
1) Tasks can be used as tags to put on your emails;
2) Replies to emails are automatically tagged with the same tags as the email which was replied to;
3) Tasks can be opened and viewed individually and, when opened, will show all their associated emails in a mails-panel or something;
4) Double-clicking on an item in the task's mails-panel will display that item; it should also be possible to take the standard mail actions (reply, forward, etc.) from this view.
This is just my view of how it might be handled. The basic idea is really just to have a tasks layer that sits on top of, and orders, the emails layer.
I’m sorry I've been gone too long, since I was the one who started this thread!
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That sounds like the GTD Gmail add on, is that pretty much your idea?
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Hi again Thomas! I went ahead and installed the GTD gamil extension for Firefox and am using it on my gmail now. I think it's well designed to help you run your inbox according to the basic GTD principles.
Yes, this is a big part of what I was thinking about when I mentioned a Tasks layer for TB. But while I know what it's doing and how, it's not quite "doing it for me". I think I am hoping that a TB extension would take it to a higher (more elegant) level. I think I'm really after a distinct Tasks view/layer, not just a re-think of how to use your inbox. Am I making sense? -
Nope, but I'm not an extension writer and I have no pull, but maybe someone else who sees your request will see it. Might be a good idea to flesh it out on your blog.
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Yeah. I'll try to come up with static sample screens of what I'm thinking of... thanks!
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By the way, something in your reply caught my attention - So how might an idea-post in this particular discussion for example, get itself to be read by a developer/s?
I ask only because getting developers to hear these ideas is the reason I started this thread. So if there isn't any link, then this thread of mine won't help anyone... hope you can give me some insight. Thanks again! -
Inappropriate?Hi Thomas! Thanks for the comment back. SOrry am not familiar with the GTD add-on. Can you give me some links so I can look it up?
Thanks much again!
I’m thankful
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Google [GTD gmail], it's the first result.
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Sorry! I didn't even follow my own rule about using the comments box to discuss add-on posts! I've downloaded the GTD userguide to give it some study and let you know if it's what I was after. Thanks again very much for this!
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Inappropriate?I would like to see an add-on that will show your reply to a message. So say for example I have replied to my friend Bob's email. It shows the green arrow next to it. Shouldn't I be able to click that arrow and have it bring up the sent message I just wrote, rather than having to go to the "Sent" folder and doing a search?
I have looked around quite a bit and cannot seem to find a plugin for this. I have seen this feature in another email program. I think it was the eMail program in Office 2004 for Macs...whats it called..eudora or entourage or whatever.
Anyway, would be a wonderful plugin.4 Comments Add a comment
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Something like how gmail shows you your mail as "conversations" with all the reply-mails in a thread? Yeah, that would be good! I vote FOR this one
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This would save us all SO much time (I used it constantly in Entourage 2004) and one I've been hoping for ever since moving to Thunderbird. And not only to have this for replies, but also a different kind for forwards (and when viewing the sent, drafts, or even deleted messages too seeing things like "this was a reply to..[click for message]."). Entourage added these as links at the top of the email being viewed which I think is a good place as it doesn't clutter the listing of emails (though it could be handy for some as an optional column on the tabular listing). I don't mean to suggest trying to copy the other guy, but this is really just one of those features that needs to be adopted, imso, and would be a similar leap forward as the new 'awesome bar' is in FF.
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There is a setting to save the email in the same folder that it was received in (Account Settings, Copies and Messages, Place Replies the folder being replied to). It's certainly not as cool, but if you're organized, it does nearly the same thing.
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I've been looking for this as well. I am using ThreadVis, and it's nice, but it does not show the conversation all at once in the main thread window, like Gmail. I vote for this one.
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Inappropriate?I'd really like to see the ability to open a file (possibly passing variable command line arguments) when an email matches a filter. In Mac's Mail, you can have it open an Applescript (I had it temporarily turn up the speaker volume and shout for me that I had an important email when sent by some people I was waiting to hear from), but on any OS, there could be some interesting possibilities...
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Inappropriate?I would really love a lightning extension that can export one, some, or all of your calendars to either an iCal och html file that can be uploaded to a server, so that you instead of downloading calendars, yuo upload them. And a second feature to this that I crave for even more is exporting the calendar for a day or a week or a month and using it as for example a desktop background.
I’m hoping my thoughts seem interesting
