Thoughtworks is officially on cloud and we have migrated to robust Google solution of apps on cloud. Gmail, Google docs, Google Calendar.. the whole nine yards. And who knows; maybe in foreseeable future, google wave!
Funny part of this transition is that; while I was looking forward to move to gmail due to it's feature rich nature; as soon as I moved to gmail; I craved for a desktop client to manage emails. I know; I don't need one; but I guess it's just become second nature to classify corporate email accounts with thick desktop clients. So I downloaded Thunderbird.
It's an excellent desktop email client. It took a while to set it up with all the plugins; but once I was done; I was really happy with what I accomplished. Here is a comprehensive list of plugins that I used to set my thunderbird up; to enable personalization to a great extent and to peak my productivity:
- CS Lite: Cooke manager add on for using thunderbrowse successfully.
- Thunderbrowse: To enable a web browser within the email client. Saves me trouble.
- Google Contacts: To sync all contacts from my google address book.
- Lightning: To integrate SunBird Calendar with Thunderbird calendar. Sunbird is in turn synced with google calendar. Works flawlessly.
- Minimize to Tray: I like to see my email client in tray rather than in task bar, as it's open 24x7.
- mozpod: To sync my contacts to my i-pod when I connect my i-pod to laptop.
- Provider for Google Calendar: To integrate google calendar with Thunderbird's Lightning extension.
- SamePlace: IM add on for Thunderbird. Lets me go online on my personal gtalk account as well as thoughtwork's gtalk account. Increases my productivity; as I am saved from multiple windows.
- xmmp4moz: Req. for SamePlace to integrate with thunderbird.
I must say, that to setup filters and other stuff I do visit my gmail inbox now and then; but apart from that thunderbird has been amazing and I have really gotten used to it in last few days.
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