Hawk Wings » extension http://www.hawkwings.net Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:44:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Get nicer looking Thunderbird labels http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/04/30/get-nicer-looking-thunderbird-labels/ http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/04/30/get-nicer-looking-thunderbird-labels/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:12:44 +0000 Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/04/30/get-nicer-looking-thunderbird-labels/ ThunderbirdThomas McMahon has knocked out some styles for the “Stylish” CSS-extension that produce brighter, better looking labels in Thunderbird.

The Stylish extension is a user style manager: “Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript, and unlike other methods of using user styles, most styles take effect immediately.”

When you have installed Stylish, you can follow the instructions on Thomas’s web site to download some pre-made label styles that will turn your Thunderbird labels from this in to this:

Thomas mc Mahons Stylish Styles

And it’s not just a Mac-only solution as Thomas notes:

The new labels code has been tested in Thunderbird 1.5 and 2.0 on Mac and works great. It should work fine under Windows and Linux too.

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]]> http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/04/30/get-nicer-looking-thunderbird-labels/feed/ 2 GTDGMail: Getting Things Done with Firefox and Gmail http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/08/24/gtdgmail-getting-things-done-with-firefox-and-gmail/ http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/08/24/gtdgmail-getting-things-done-with-firefox-and-gmail/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:00:18 +0000 Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/08/24/gtdgmail-getting-things-done-with-firefox-and-gmail/ GtdgmailGTDGMail is a Firefox extension that provides an excellent “Getting Things Done” (GTD) framework for Gmail. It also adds advanced search abilities in Gmail, which are very welcome whether you are into GTD or not.

If it had existed when I was compiling a list of ten GTD apps for Mac users, it would have come in near the top of the list. It’s a very clever stretch of Gmail’s existing label and filter features.

GTDGmail is very easy to install. Simply navigate to the site, click on the install link and follow the prompts in Firefox. A quick relaunch, load Gmail and you are good to go.

The extension comes with “wizards” to install common labels for contexts, actions and projects. Detailed instructions make it easy to create your own additional ones.

Access to the GTD labels is provided at the top of each Gmail message:

Gtdgmail Header

The inbox helpfully displays those labels at the start of the message’s subject line (some of my labels are coloured by the Gmail Label Colors Greasemonkey script — I like visual clues):

Gtdgmail Inbox

Additional tweaks offer easy emailing of tasks and references to yourself.

One other feature of the extension will please Gmail users even if they are not interested in the GTD approach. The GTD search function allows you to construct complex searches in Gmail much faster than you can manually:

Gtdgmail Search

Once you needed to enter the string “label:freelance label:Hawk-Wings after:17/8/2006″ into Gmail’s search box. Now it is just a matter of a few mouse clicks.

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