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I am sick of tons of notifiers in my system tray, opening up gmail in one tab, gcal in another, twitter in another, running pidgin, remembering what files I have to edit today. I want a system for managing EVERYTHING i do on my computer in an orderly fashion so I can sit down at my computer, go through every item one at a time from beginning to end. I want to make an RSS reader that works with more than just RSS feeds. I want one list of everything that is happening in my digital life. When I get an email, it appears at the end of the list; when I get a chat request, it ends up at the end of the list; when a web site updates, it ends up at the end of the list. I want this program to be able to launch other programs with the contents of each item in the list; save the text of a website to a word document, open a chat with the URL of a post in my list. I want to be able to set up my own local streams with things like system information, or documents that need to be updated daily.
I am a CS major (junior) with some intern experience with C and low level programming (wrote a boot-loader utility). I don't have much experience with web-tool api's or ajax or anything, which I would imagine I would need to write plugins for a tool like this, and I am looking for people who would either help me, or point me in the right direction.
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Please don't combine the project of converting messages to a common format and the project of making a UI For all kinds of messages.
Instead, make adapters that normalize all your sources to some common format (probably jabber), and then make a new jabber UI. This will make organization and testing easier for you, and people with other converters or jabber clients will be able to benefit from your work too.
clickable: snowl
isn't what's Snowl is about ? http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/snowl/
just for general reference as someone who's done both, if you can manage c and low level stuff conceptually, I think you'll be able to learn about web technologies reasonably well up to the actually UI (thanks to IE being a piece of crap getting HTML to render properly takes some knowledge and intuition built up from experience) as long as you can put in the time.
on the bright side it looks like you've got some interested people who know that realm well.
thanks for the encouragement! I feel safe with low-level code because I know exactly what is going on with every bit and byte. The higher level abstraction is a little intimidating at this point but your comment gives me reassurance.
I am really excited that there are people interested in working on this. I think this will be a fun project to work on during the school year.
Isn't this very similar to what you can already do with Yahoo Pipes?
You can probably do a lot of this stuff with pipes. I haven't really messed with it that much. I'll look into it, but even so, it would be nice to have a client.
Yeah, that was more or less my point. You can create the feed with Pipes and then use your own RSS reader, or a slightly customized one, for the harder stuff. Then again, an RSS reader might already exist with the features you're looking for.
I'd also like to help you... I know some programming (C,C++), but most of the time I write scripts (php, bash, python).
If do you need me, adrian dot stratulat at inbox dot com
I am planning to create something like this myself. Hit me up if you are interested. The key elements in technical stack is Java, Rome, Informa, JBoss, Lucene, JSF, JQuery, Hibernate.
ashesh dot nishant at gmail dot com - that's where u reach me.
I'm going to set up a google groups to talk more about this. I'll email you with a link when I get it going.
Thanks, mate. We are set up now.
We've already started on this stuff, its called a Semantic Metadata Framework:
http://justhackit.slinkset.com/links/Providing_a_place_for_computers_to_track_meaning_and_reason_
Working with low level coder would be great!
email luke at thoughttrail dot com :)
I love the concept! It isn't exactly hat I had in mind but it is really cool.
Hey there! I have been thinking about this exact same problem. We should talk. BTW, i am a very experienced web developer so it may be a good synergy to boot.
I'd love to talk more about this.
my email address is zmobie at gmail dot com.