Comments on: Notary for Thunderbird 2.x

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:19:39 +0000

Fair point and thanks again for the 2.x fix.

By: RickMeasham

RickMeasham — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:22:18 +0000

OK, in case it isn’t clear yet: my aim was to get this working with T’bird 2.x. Not to take over maintenance or development. If you want new features: talk to the developer, not to me.

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:04:02 +0000

Firstly thanks for the hack, I like Notary.

Secondly, I had an idea and wondered whether you would be able to hack it into Notary. The functionality would go like this:

1. Apply a tag to several emails
2. Open one of the emails with the new tag
3. Show notes
4. The following is displayed (or something like):

Notes for email:

—
Notes for [Tag name]

—
Notes for [Other tag name]…

5. Add your note to the appropriate area

If the note was made in “Notes for [Tag name]” area then when emails tagged with [Tag name] are opened they show that note.

What do you think?

It would be really useful for me as I often use tags to define projects and to have some project/tag notes would be utterly fab.

all the best
Dave

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:05:56 +0000

Good Hack Bloke !
(and congrats on the young un)

I kluged the version to get it to work on 2.0.0.9,
but your version does not corrupt the From.Subject window so I am using that.

To others in this post, Rick has given us a one-off fix and made it clear he didn’t write and will not maintain it.

To end on a bright note – I was sitting wondering how to ask Thunderbird to allow notes on email, and my mind turned to extensions – so I googled, downloaded (ok mucked about a little), and now I am saited
MOZILLA ROCKS eh !

By: RickMeasham

RickMeasham — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:54:27 +0000

Once again, the aim here was to getting working in T’bird 2.x .. not to take over development. If it doesn’t do what you need, then you need to talk to the author.

That said, I see the same problem as you do. But that has nothing to do with getting it to work in 2.x and isn’t something I need (in fact I’m starting to move away from T’bird for the accounts I needed notes on)

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:23:41 +0000

Notary is only saving the first line of the notes I make. The rest disappears after restarting TB.

Am I the only one this happens to?

By: Kip

Kip — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:29:46 +0000

Thank you Rick! Your work is much appreciated.

Jocelyn Haib,
In Firefox, right click the link and click “Save Link As…”
In IE, right click the link and click “Save Target As…”

By: Jocelyn Haib

Jocelyn Haib — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:31:43 +0000

Hi everybody the link for download is not working

By: Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:33:58 +0000

Thank you very much for this update. I am also a dedicated user of Notary for annotating my messages with useful information. I did not update to TBird 2.0 until I found this update to Notary.

Now if the Original Author would only take an interest again so the extension could be developed further

By: RickMeasham

RickMeasham — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:30:54 +0000

G’day Diji,

Thanks for those bugs but I didn’t write, nor wish to maintain this module. I’ve just fixed it so it works (for me) with Thunderbird 2.x.

Follow the link in the article to the original extension and report them there. Hopefully the author will one day see them.

Cheers!
Rick Measham