Notices by Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org), page 26

I should be writing slides for my OSS-EU talks, instead I'm checking out FOSS projects discovered on the Fosstodon local timeline. Procrastination is *awesome*

@HerraBRE same can be said for the saved-searches-as-a-tag, which I found in between auto-learning tags and manually-made mailing-list filters. It was quite a journey over the first 3 days ;)

I think that is more discoverable, I just didn't notice how "Edit" changes to "Save" when you make a search.

@HerraBRE I would agree that it's logical, yes. Once I found out about it (which I found here I think - https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/issues/1873) it was like a light bulb switching on :)

Today I learned that writing blog posts at midnight *may* not be a fantastic strategy for quality content ...

@HerraBRE I just re-read it myself, and realised I missed one of my feedback items - the difference between dragging a tag to a mail, and dragging a mail to a tag.

I figured out dragging mail quickly (that's expected, and the handles show up nicely once some mail is selected). But I only even realised you *could* drag tags after finding a discussion of the two forms ... somewhere? I was searching for a "Tags" menu within the message pane.

I should go add that to the post, I guess...

@HerraBRE Glad it's helpful! I suspected that most of what I found impossible wouldn't actually be, so apologies if it comes over as "there's no way to do this". It's more meant to say "I couldn't figure out how to do this". Overall my goal is to highlight things that long-term users will know and instinctively do/not do, and because it's "obvious" it never gets documented.

I'll be happy to publish a 2nd post of corrections if you want to point me to how to accomplish things :)

@HerraBRE A blog is you! It's a wordy one, but I hope it's useful - please take all criticism as constructive, you've got a great project here.

https://emeraldreverie.org/blog/2018/10/03/first-impressions-mailpile/

@HerraBRE I started replying to this just now but the length got out of hand, so, err, you've got mail ;)

@HerraBRE good to know. I briefly debating a Nextcloud "app" frontend for it, similar to the Rainloop app. But I don't have time for that :)

@HerraBRE new thread, whats the situation re: mobile access? I've set up #mailpile for my work mail (which is always on 1 machine, and not on call - perfect fit) but for personal mail I'm kinda used to my IMAP Android client checking for mail every so often ... ;)

Note: put network effects to one side here, I can arrange VPN access etc to the Mailpile host as needed. It's the regular checking that I'm curious about.

Also feel free to direct me to IRC if this is better handled there

@HerraBRE Got family visiting this weekend, remind me next week. I think #mailpile has some good potential, so if I can help I will.

@HerraBRE iirc Briar already implemented forums over Tor... :D #justSaying #dontLookAtMe

@HerraBRE perhaps I could help out there, I'm already running a bunch of these ...

Note to self, invest time in working out how multi-site Discourse works...

@HerraBRE A blog post is not a bad idea, it's been too long since I wrote anything. Crazy weekend coming up, I hope I remember my points by next week :)

Side note: I'm already running 3 separate Discourse instances for various communities. I can highly recommend it if you decide you *do* want a discussion venue.

Spent my first two days with #mailpile this week. After a bumpy start, I do like!

@HerraBRE is there a good place for "first time user thoughts"? Should I write something up here? Open a bunch of GH issues?

@ohyran @kev source of that idea:

https://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_feiler_agile_programming_for_your_family

Excellent talk, and not just for those with kids.

@ohyran @kev my kids are young yet, but I'm trying hard to treat them like adults whenever the moment is right. I figure if I treat them like adults early, there's a better chance they might act like one too ;)

Related to that *listening* to them. Listening is hard enough between two adults. We've been setting aside a space for chat once a week, and for the first time recently, my daughter used it to ask me to do something differently at nursery. She's ... under 5, let's say ;) I was impressed!

@puffinux @mart that said, there's already a wealth of generic matrix clients. I'm using riot on android and nheko on desktop

@puffinux @mart +1 the core is solid. Would be great to see apps dedicated to a specific style of chat though - both small-group (like Signal) and large-group (like IRC) are possible on matrix, but Riot doesn't differentiate.

(Not my original idea, see https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/05/16/banquets-and-barbecues/ for deeper analysis :P)