A Note-Taking Extension for Thunderbird Found (kinda)

A while back I bitched about wanting a Thunderbird extension that would let me take notes on individual emails so that I could track what work I did related to the email requests I get in my inbox.

Well, some guy named Frank DiLecce must be an avid reader of hyb.com because 2 weeks later there’s “Message Notes”. It adds a panel to the bottom of Thunderbird with ‘Add Note’ and ‘Edit Note’ buttons. Click ‘Add Note’ and a javascriptish one-line text entry box appears and you type your notes. It saves your note in a textfile in your profile folder - it all works pretty well.

“Message Notes” is currently in pre-pre-alpha so usability and extended functionality is understandablly limited. You can resize the note panel, but not move it away from the bottom of the screen (Hey Frank: lemme put the panel on the left or right side of the message body window - thx). The hide / show notes button in the header field is nice - good job thinking of that one.

Frank must be a faithful reader to get on my request so quick and I imagine he’s working hard to get that next version out on the interweb. thanks frank!