Inspirational Material

This page links to articles, resources or other things which should be of inspiration to Bongo hackers. It's not all about code.

Mail/calendaring specifics

• Groupware Bad - JWZ's seminal tract
• Inbox Zero
• IBM's Remail

Mail/calendaring things

• 3 paper planners

Designing for users

• Perfecting your Personas
• The Inmates are Running the Asylum (book)

Development

• Worse is Better
• Online Desktop project
• Dreaming in Code (book)
• Joel's review of Dreaming in Code

Papers

Feel free to add, edit or even remove items from the list below. Note that these are direct links to PDFs. You have been warned.

• THREAD ARCS: An Email Thread Visualization - Bernard J. Kerr. A working prototype of this can be seen here (although it doesn't really follow the shading guidelines listed in the paper, it shows generally what the visualization would look like).
• Email overload: exploring personal information management of email - Steve Whittaker, Candace Sidner
• Bifrost Inbox Organizer: Giving users control over the inbox - Olle Bälter, Candace L. Sidner
• Taking Email to Task: The Design and Evaluation of a Task Management Centered Email Tool - Victoria Bellotti, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Mark Howard, Ian Smith