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So my laptop is quite old, and if David and I can figure out just what I want to do about that, we'll wait for a sale and do it. In the meantime, having both Thunderbird and Firefox running at the same time is more or less okay as long as I'm at the keyboard doing stuff; but if I walk away and am gone longer than intended, energies bombinate in the vacuum and create chimeras, and the whole thing gets jammed up with apps that can't be pinned down taking up all the disk space (yes, I've done about ten thousand recommended things to fix this, it always returns) and occasionally making excursions into the memory or CPU usage just for variety. This frustrates me considerably.
So I've taken to doing a preliminary email check on my phone, answering some things that don't require a lot of words, deleting spam and other unwanted things, and then shutting down Firefox and bringing up Thunderbird on the laptop to deal with messages that require more thought and more typing.
This wasn't working badly, until I realized by watching the notification of a Dreamwidth comment come in via Bluemail on the phone, and then not seeing it anywhere in the inbox, that I probably wasn't seeing most of my Dreamwidth comment notifications on my phone. They are not in the Spam folder. They will all come meekly up in a little chronological line if I search on, say, "DW Comment." They say they are in the inbox. But they are not otherwise viewable in the inbox. I haven't had much luck with getting answers to Bluemail issues, which probably says more about me than it does about Bluemail.
Anyway, this means I have been commenting on people's journals and getting answers and not answering them because I don't realize they're there. I do occasionally see one of the notifications on the laptop, but, um, my inbox there could only by considerable exercise of charity be called something as benign as chaotic; so I can see them NOW because I look, but they didn't generally get my attention when I was just hunting down emails that required longer answers.
I'm planning to go through the comments and answer them, but I thought I would give those of you who don't really care about getting a three-week-old response to a comment in so untimely a manner. You can comment here or send me a PM if you think you probably don't need me to answer whatever it was that you said to me. But I really regret unknowingly letting conversations drop.
Hoping the spring, the fickle spring, is treating all of you kindly.
Pamela
So I've taken to doing a preliminary email check on my phone, answering some things that don't require a lot of words, deleting spam and other unwanted things, and then shutting down Firefox and bringing up Thunderbird on the laptop to deal with messages that require more thought and more typing.
This wasn't working badly, until I realized by watching the notification of a Dreamwidth comment come in via Bluemail on the phone, and then not seeing it anywhere in the inbox, that I probably wasn't seeing most of my Dreamwidth comment notifications on my phone. They are not in the Spam folder. They will all come meekly up in a little chronological line if I search on, say, "DW Comment." They say they are in the inbox. But they are not otherwise viewable in the inbox. I haven't had much luck with getting answers to Bluemail issues, which probably says more about me than it does about Bluemail.
Anyway, this means I have been commenting on people's journals and getting answers and not answering them because I don't realize they're there. I do occasionally see one of the notifications on the laptop, but, um, my inbox there could only by considerable exercise of charity be called something as benign as chaotic; so I can see them NOW because I look, but they didn't generally get my attention when I was just hunting down emails that required longer answers.
I'm planning to go through the comments and answer them, but I thought I would give those of you who don't really care about getting a three-week-old response to a comment in so untimely a manner. You can comment here or send me a PM if you think you probably don't need me to answer whatever it was that you said to me. But I really regret unknowingly letting conversations drop.
Hoping the spring, the fickle spring, is treating all of you kindly.
Pamela
