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General Software Discussion / Re: research system where emails w/ inline pics are the base
« Last post by Steven Avery on October 04, 2011, 12:43 PM »Hi,
I tried Google Groups. The mail goes to the receiver fine, identical to Yahoogroups. Then the big issue is the archiving. Where it is better than Yahoogroups, but it converts the embedded .jpg to an attachment .jpg. So the result is very different, especially if you have 3 or 4 pics in an email. (You do not end up with one readable letter in the same format as people who receive the email). I will consider whether it might make sense anyway.
Hmm.. the pic does show up properly within a gmail account. If the gmail account allows direct links to an email that would do the job. This could apply to any web-based email that receives properly. However, I have never heard of that feature.
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Evernote: I know that Evernote makes it easy to mail an email to your note, a very nice feature. However the setting tags is not as versatile as an email forum, where you can simply bookmark a url into Linkman and have tags integrated with your web url info on the same topic. (I did not explain that earlier.) In Evernote any time you want to access the info you would have to go into the program environment and taggify. It is probably worth a trial to see the comfort level, overall it may be a fine way to approach the issue of research-organization, even if different from my initial idea.
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Are there any email systems that give each email a disk file ? (I would only use it for this research project, not multi-thousands of emails). If so, the individual emails could be dragged-and-dropped into Linkman and that would work pretty good. This is a different idea, trying to do everything locally through email. I could try this manually in Eudora, although it is a bit of a kludge. Receive the emails into singular folders. However none of this will work unless the email program knows how to take parameters, from a path, in a special way that directly brings up that folder. That is asking a lot. It might be an interesting project for a Bat! type.
Note: then I tried Gmail -- above. That is more hopeful for this, since it already is url based, if they would just have a "one-email one-url" feature.
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And I could pose the question to the various WebArchive programs. Can they receive information and go from INPUT email ---> OUTPUT disk file. (Probably not, since they want to work in their native format, not thrashing hundreds of disk files.)
Steven
I tried Google Groups. The mail goes to the receiver fine, identical to Yahoogroups. Then the big issue is the archiving. Where it is better than Yahoogroups, but it converts the embedded .jpg to an attachment .jpg. So the result is very different, especially if you have 3 or 4 pics in an email. (You do not end up with one readable letter in the same format as people who receive the email). I will consider whether it might make sense anyway.
Hmm.. the pic does show up properly within a gmail account. If the gmail account allows direct links to an email that would do the job. This could apply to any web-based email that receives properly. However, I have never heard of that feature.
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Evernote: I know that Evernote makes it easy to mail an email to your note, a very nice feature. However the setting tags is not as versatile as an email forum, where you can simply bookmark a url into Linkman and have tags integrated with your web url info on the same topic. (I did not explain that earlier.) In Evernote any time you want to access the info you would have to go into the program environment and taggify. It is probably worth a trial to see the comfort level, overall it may be a fine way to approach the issue of research-organization, even if different from my initial idea.
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Are there any email systems that give each email a disk file ? (I would only use it for this research project, not multi-thousands of emails). If so, the individual emails could be dragged-and-dropped into Linkman and that would work pretty good. This is a different idea, trying to do everything locally through email. I could try this manually in Eudora, although it is a bit of a kludge. Receive the emails into singular folders. However none of this will work unless the email program knows how to take parameters, from a path, in a special way that directly brings up that folder. That is asking a lot. It might be an interesting project for a Bat! type.
Note: then I tried Gmail -- above. That is more hopeful for this, since it already is url based, if they would just have a "one-email one-url" feature.
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And I could pose the question to the various WebArchive programs. Can they receive information and go from INPUT email ---> OUTPUT disk file. (Probably not, since they want to work in their native format, not thrashing hundreds of disk files.)
Steven
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