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In the following, I outline a potential project to make it easier to deal with a massive volume of personal messages: excavating, traversing, relating, reporting, annotating. I call this hypothetical program ``Intertwingle.'' Intertwingle can be seen as a unification of a search tool and an address book. It is not, however, a mail reader. The presentation of query results could be done through a mail reader, but the intention is that ones choice of mail reader should be orthogonal to the use of this tool. The two kinds of tools just happen to operate on the same data. The design philosophy is that any time there is a visual representation of an object, the corresponding object should be accessible with a gesture: That chasing links is easier than composing search terms (but both are needed.) The target audience is individuals who have a lot of mail. The target audience is not inhabitants of the corporation, it is people. Needs which are specific to IS Managers, or to Enterprise Directo

The Mozilla Organization Our Mission Who We Are Getting Involved Community Editorials What's New Development Roadmap Module Owners Blue Sky Projects Status Tools Products Source Code Binaries Documentation License Terms Bug Reports Search Feedback ``Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged -- people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.'' -- Ted Nelson In the following, I outline a potential project to make it easier to deal with a massive volume of personal…

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