A while ago I wrote about new Thunderbird notes extension and yesterday I started working on it. The list of requsted features were changed lightly – the main difference is that there is no support for Google Notebook because Google closed this service recently. But the rest is nearly same as before:
- creating/editing/deleting notes – notes can be attached to any mail message, address book record or calendar item (only when Lightning addon is installed). To each target can be attached more then one note or notes can be created without target.
- new view with list of all messages (see picture)
- new sidebar with list of notes categories
- support for Thunderbird‘s Activity Manager
- make notes searchable by Thunderbird’s Gloda
- adding links to notes
- allow to add note as the mail message attachement
- each note can be exposed as a task or event (only when is Lightning addon installed)
- support for SeaMonkey‘s Messenger
- support for Mozilla Weave
For the most actual list of finished/planned features see README.txt file. At the Mozdev are also available screenshots from the trunk versions – around here are only some of them.
You can download latest version of tbNotes on AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/14395. But be prepare that all not is implemented or fully functional because this project is still in an early phase. |
 Initial version of tbNotes |
 Some of enhancements for tbNotes 0.1.5 |
 tbNotes 0.1.5 - New notes view |
Love this addon! Is it possible to make it compatible with Thunderbird 2.0.0.23? Would be really useful as me and my friends are yet to start fiddling with beta!
| 26.10.2009 @ 16.47
Hi,
I’m pretty not sure – tbNotes are targeted to the Thunderbird 3.x and I’m not sure if I want to fall to the time problems with supporting older versions (because I don’t use them). What I can promise is that I’ll try to install Thunderbird 2.0.x and if there will be no much differencies in implementation I’ll do it.
By o.
| 26.10.2009 @ 17.50
Well, I do NOT support Thunderbird 2.0.x because it doesn’t support SQLite storage and I don’t wont to handle with two types of storage in this extension.
By o.
| 26.10.2009 @ 23.04
Well that’s a shame, guess we’ll have to wait for a final 3.xx, hope it doesn’t take too long. Thanks either way, can’t wait!
Ed
| 27.10.2009 @ 16.19
I encourage you to swith to Thunderbird 3.0 right now. Currently I’m using Tb3.0b4 with IMAP Gmail account and I’m really pleased how it works. No bugs and Gloda is now turned on. So try it!
| 27.10.2009 @ 18.27
Trying it out atm. Seems to work a bit slower than previous version so far (at least with gmail and especially with hotmail). Also noticed that setting up accounts is way easier now. Linux client is close to perfection, whereas windows client (at least on 7) might need some tweaking, it seemed a bit slower than it’s linux brethren. Going to try your extension at last.
Ed
| 28.10.2009 @ 13.15
I see why it’s still beta, the html in an amazon.co.uk newsletter didn’t load correctly, unlike on TB 2.0.0.23. Also installed your extension on 3.0b4 (changed max version value) and… well, it didn’t work too well
, as expected I suppose. When do you think it’ll be compatible with b4?
Thanks again for the lovely work!
Ed
| 28.10.2009 @ 13.59