a use for Orbis

[Mary Bernard <Mary_Bernard>]

In my mailer (Eudora) I have a mailbox for mail from the NB list, and 
another called 'NBKeep', into which I drag NB list messages that contain 
useful tips.

Yesterday I realised that I'd been accumulating these since early 2001, but 
had hardly ever looked back at them, because it's so hard to find the 
information I vaguely remember being in there somewhere. Then inspiration 
struck. A Eudora .MBX file is just a text (or at worst html) file. I made 
an Orbis textbase 'NBList', consisting of NBKEEP.MBX and a few messages I'd 
saved  separately as files. I used 'paragraphs, double' as the unit (the 
separator). This was because some emails have hard CRs at the end of every 
line, and I don't want to see just one line at a time, but a whole para.

I indexed; I did a few searches; and I'm really pleased. It makes my saved 
tips much more accessible. And of course Orbis will update to include any 
new messages I drag into the 'NBKeep' mailbox.

Mary

Mary Bernard
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