If you’re a Google Calendar user like myself you might want to check out this really simple add-on for Thunderbird, which should be available as an official add-on for the coming Thunderbird 3 release.
The Google Calendar Tab
As simple as it sounds, this adds the Google Calendar web interface as a new tab directly into Thunderbird.  [...]

I’ve been experimenting with how we can use tabs inside Thunderbird.

The previous tabbing post already discussed how tabs help people to keep their current context and multi-task more flexibly.  I’ve created a number of designs that look into using tabs in Thunderbird so email users can have the same kind of power over their context.
In [...]

With an hour or so of downtime during the Calendar Face 2 Face meeting this week I started a little CSS hacking of the Lightning Calendar extension.  My goal was to change improve the visual effect of the month view into more of a heat map than a listing of all your events for the [...]

Travel
I’ll be heading out to Hamburg April 18-23rd with David and others for the Calendar project face-to-face meeting.  It will be great to meet Christian in person now that we’ve been talking on the phone discussing possible Calendar and Thunderbird changes.  I’m excited to make a quick overnight trip up to Copenhagen as I’ve never [...]

Since I started using the Thunderbird nightly builds I haven’t been using the Lightning plugin because the add-on version didn’t keep up with the latest build versions of Thunderbird.  Luckily this morning I woke up from this reality when I found the Lightning Nightly Updater which fixes that problem.
After installing I changed it’s options to [...]

Email idea #43819
I would like to be able to tag messages or threads of messages with calendar events or tasks.
My tagging scheme breaks down into these types: (with examples)

Project: thunderbird, evince
Discussion: desktop-devel, firefox-journal-devel, moz-bugs
Temporal: meeting with david, thunderbird alpha1 deadline, and tabbed interface wiki page task

Project Tags
These are used to tag messages related to a [...]