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Hi, I'm | Hi, I'm William Duyck, a community volunteer with the Mozilla Messaging Team. In this video, I'm going to run through the new Quick Filters feature in Thunderbird 3.1, and show you how much faster, and easier, finding your emails can be.<br> | ||
In Thunderbird 3.0 we introduced a brand new search system, which made it possible to find messages in any email account or folder. Now, we up our game | In Thunderbird 3.0 we introduced a brand new search system, which made it possible to find messages in any email account or folder. Now, we up our game, and present you with the Quick Filters toolbar, which, instead of hiding the options box in a menu, somewhere deep and dark, it brings filters into the light, and right to your fingertips! Allowing you to search by sender, subject, recipients, message, or any combination of these, in a matter of mere moments.<br> | ||
Okay, so lets say I need to find that important email about upgrading the Mozilla Communities Theme. Well all I have to do is open the Quick Filters toolbar in my Mozilla Community Sites search folder, which you may remeber from Thunderbird 2. I then start searching, {type upgrade theme} and apply the filters | Okay, so lets say I need to find that important email about upgrading the Mozilla Communities Theme. Well all I have to do is open the Quick Filters toolbar in my Mozilla Community Sites search folder, which you may remeber from Thunderbird 2. I then start searching, {type upgrade theme} and apply the filters I want search by {select subject and body}. Here I am going to use the filters subject and body. Its that simple! | ||
There are even some default, commonly used filters which | There are even some default, commonly used filters which I can apply to an entire folder in a split second. {quick flash of a filter being applied} Need to see that again? {pause} Okay then, so I open the folder I want to apply the filter to and give it a click. I can then see the magic unfold before my very eyes. Yes, and I can use any combination of these too! | ||
Oh... and did I mention that | Oh... and did I mention that I can pin these filters so that as I move from folder to folder... {another short pause while switching folders with pinned filter [stared]} the filter is automagically applied stratight away. | ||
{longer pause during fade out to closing screen} | {longer pause during fade out to closing screen} | ||
Revision as of 17:27, 22 July 2010
Quick Filters Screencast
Brief
Create a screencast on the new Quick Filters feature in Thunderbird 3.1.*. Make it descriptive and detailed while keeping it light and easy to digest.
Notes
Useful Resources
- MozLabs Mailing List Add-on - http://mozillalabs.com/messaging/mailing-list-manager/
- MozLabs Quick Filters - http://mozillalabs.com/messaging/quick-filter/
- TB Feature List - http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/features/
Qutoes
- Thunderbird 3.0 boasted a brand new search system, which made it possible to find messages in any email account or folder.
- The new search answered the question: “Where is that message?” when a message could be anywhere but what it didn’t answer was a question like, “Quickly find me the unread messages from Susan in this folder”.
- In the new Quick Filter we improved on the search type switching. Instead of hiding the options box in a menu we presented the filter types as a new row when the user first starts typing their search.
Drafts
Current Draft Script
Hi, I'm William Duyck, a community volunteer with the Mozilla Messaging Team. In this video, I'm going to run through the new Quick Filters feature in Thunderbird 3.1, and show you how much faster, and easier, finding your emails can be.
In Thunderbird 3.0 we introduced a brand new search system, which made it possible to find messages in any email account or folder. Now, we up our game, and present you with the Quick Filters toolbar, which, instead of hiding the options box in a menu, somewhere deep and dark, it brings filters into the light, and right to your fingertips! Allowing you to search by sender, subject, recipients, message, or any combination of these, in a matter of mere moments.
Okay, so lets say I need to find that important email about upgrading the Mozilla Communities Theme. Well all I have to do is open the Quick Filters toolbar in my Mozilla Community Sites search folder, which you may remeber from Thunderbird 2. I then start searching, {type upgrade theme} and apply the filters I want search by {select subject and body}. Here I am going to use the filters subject and body. Its that simple!
There are even some default, commonly used filters which I can apply to an entire folder in a split second. {quick flash of a filter being applied} Need to see that again? {pause} Okay then, so I open the folder I want to apply the filter to and give it a click. I can then see the magic unfold before my very eyes. Yes, and I can use any combination of these too!
Oh... and did I mention that I can pin these filters so that as I move from folder to folder... {another short pause while switching folders with pinned filter [stared]} the filter is automagically applied stratight away.
{longer pause during fade out to closing screen}
So thats the new Quick Filters toolbar. Real quick, but in all its glory. {pause while url appears} Give it a try! Visit www.getthunderbird.com.
Thunderbird... Its all yours!