Next friday I’ll be going to Freiburg, Germany. The event there is a Nepomuk meeting. I’ve mostly been to Akonadi meetings, so this is a new one for me. New people and mostly a new topic.

I’ve been working with Nepomuk bits in Mailody and Akonadi and I’m convinced semantic searching for mails has a big future. It should be simple to resolve queries like ‘I received an Excel-document from my mom last month, where is it’ and ‘Get me the mail where I made the offer to my customer’. And it should be possible to ask that question in exactly this way. Nepomuk is an answer for it. Mailody can already tag mails and Akonadi can automatically tag all incoming mails with the tags for the sender, etc. There is also a tag resource which can lists all your tags as virtual folders. In the far, far future this can be extended to an interface in which above questions could be asked and answered.

A step in that direction is pretty much kde.markmail.org, which lets you chose the mailinglist, author, etc and automatically filters on those criteria. I know Thunderbird has an extension that can do something similar. But those implementations are just the start.

Basically I want to review all the nepomuk implementations in Akonadi and Mailody this weekend, see if it all works as expected and maybe extend the tag resource to use Nepomuks query language. Also it would be nice to add Comments to mails. I think that’s a nice and very wanted feature for mails and not a to difficult goal to achieve. Ideally I would like to share the widget Dolphin uses. And I hear its author is at the meeting too!

So this week I’m preparing for the weekend, compiling nepomuk playground stuff, making sure my computer is up to date and my Eee can setup a NX-connection to this computer properly, so I can hack on my quadcore as usual and use the Eee purely to connect to it. I’m excited and looking forward to this weekend!