Thanks to the efforts of Makoto Kato (jp-blog en-blog twitter) whom you may remember as the bringer of CJK bi-gram tokenization, I have just pushed tokenizer support for case-folding, accent-folding, and voiced sound mark magic to comm-central. The net result is that searches for “ĝLȬdÅ” will now find “gloda” and vice versa. Less crazy searches [...]
Also tagged sqlite, tokenizerFollowing in the footsteps of the MIT SIMILE project’s Exhibit tool (originally authored by David Huynh) and Thunderbird Seek extension (again by David Huynh), we are hoping to land faceted global search for Thunderbird 3.0 (a la gloda) in beta 4. I think it’s important to point out how ridiculously awesome the Seek extension is. [...]
Also tagged facets, simile, Thunderbird, timelineThunderbird. With the global database, gloda. Using the exptoolbar extension. Using the protovis javascript visualization library. For reals! Not a prank! Just grab the most recent XPI or grab the repo. And be using a nightly (beta 2 might work?) What you are looking at: The exptoolbar search results page, augmented with a visualization. Each [...]
Also tagged exptoolbar, protovis, ThunderbirdDo you know JavaScript? Would you like to help improve Thunderbird and its exciting global database, gloda? Now is your chance! Check out these exciting bugs that are reasonably sized and independent tasks: Index non-offline messages. Currently, gloda only indexes messages that are available offline. Show indexing status in the activity manager. Is gloda indexing [...]
Also tagged pleas, ThunderbirdSure, a word cloud of your blog posts is cool… but what if you could take any search of your e-mail, and turn that into a word cloud? And then, if you click on one of those words, your search constraints would be revised to use the word you clicked on (and you’d get a [...]
Also tagged exptoolbar, Thunderbird, visophyte-js, word cloudin context credits where credits due: thread arcs a la the nice people at the IBM CUE group the search view prototype is implemented by David Ascher. the positioning of the visualization is on me as a quick hack, though. the search view prototype is designed by Bryan Clark, and he has even better stuff [...]
Also tagged exptoolbar, Thunderbird, visophyte-jsFull-text search using FTS3. Full-text search with a contact constraint. The global database sqlite file resulting from indexing all of mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird is about 13M for something like 4500 messages. We’re providing FTS3 with the bodies (but not attachments!) of all the newsgroup messages and the subjects of the messages which initiate new threads. For real [...]
Also tagged exptoolbar, ThunderbirdType type type type. Autocomplete contact… Completed contact becomes a bubble! Bubble becomes a constraint, showing us only the messages involving the given contact. (The idea is that you could then click on/select/whatever the bubble and change the constraint to be only to/from/cc/whatever if you are so inclined.) Type type type, autocomplete, new constraint! Now [...]
Also tagged exptoolbar, ThunderbirdA primitive visualization augments the gloda “other messages by author” listing by showing the messages sent by the author over time. Messages are stacked by day. The currently selected message is in darkest blue and also very wide. Other messages from the same thread/conversation are in lighter blue and less wide. Messages not in the [...]
Also tagged expmessI am declaring milestone 1 of gloda (the global database extension for Thunderbird 3.x) / expmess (the experimental message view extension for Thunderbird 3.x) reached. Milestone 1 basically consists of: It statically indexes all of your folders. It does not track changes made to your mailboxes. It will become confused and angry as time goes [...]
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