Suggestions for new AddOns

I have a few suggestions for some AddOns.

  1. This is probably more appropriate for Lightning. An AddOn that implements the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People weekly planning using roles, goals, sharpen-the-saw, and mission statement. This AddOn could open up new possibilities for Thunderbird. One way that it could help, it could attract business adoption of TB. The second way it could help users to make use of this special way of planning and leading. Please consider this.
  2. AddOn to create groups for emailing.
  3. AddOn to make a “ConstantContacts”-like email.
    More later.

‘Group for emailing’ is called a mailing list in TB. ConstantContact-like mail looks like templates, for which there are add-ons such as SmartTemplate4.

Four years ago, I suggested having the planning AddOn to TB to support Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Here are a few details for those not familiar with the Stephen R Covey planning concepts. First off, the planning uses a four quadrant matrix similar to one used by a famous historical person. I will attach two files. The first one explains the quadrant time management matrix and the second is a planner sheet template file. This a template file, someone created in Excel for the weekly planning sheet that I borrowed from: https://beyondweirdness.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/weekly-schedule-from-steven-covey-in-excel-and-pdf-format/. The planner has Roles and Goals, Sharpen-the-Saw, a time designated plan for a week with appointments/commitments, and Priorities. I think the feature should let a user to create a year set of roles and year/long-term goals in the roles. Another feature would be to enable the user to create a expandable task lists that are repeatable and applied to the Sharpen-the-saw, priorities, and another planning area called a three week plan of activities or tasks for accomplishing one goal that is related to the roles and goals. The task/activities user created list could be: writing a thank you letter, visiting my sister, run on treadmill for 20 minutes, etc. Roles could be: Gardener, Teacher, Inventor, Writer/Author, Mother, Son, Board member, Stockholder, Team Leader, Sales Representative, Engineer-in-Training, Project Lead, Team Member, Resident Subject Expert, Student, Mentor, Life Coach, Spouse, Business Partner, Lawyer Consultant, etc. Sharpen-the-Saw activities could be: reading, planning, exercising, visiting partner, studying, etc that are specific to the areas: physical, mental, spiritual, social/emotional.

With regard to ConstantContacts, the reply stating using a template is only one part. ConstantContacts uses a hyperlink to update content in a message. So it is possible to send a message that gets updated in someone’s email inbox or other folder. As long as the email is hyperlinked, the information can be updated. When someone is reassigned to a new project, the newly assigned person and contact info could be updated in the email.