1,007
edits
Changes
→Emailing
You could have achieved the same thing by typing "define aglet" -- or just "def aglet", or even "def this". (Ubiquity understands "this" to refer to the selection.)
Right now, the email command uses <a href="http://mail.google.com">Google Mail</a>. That means you'll only be able to follow along with the next part of the tutorial if you have a GMail account. Eventually, of course, we'd like to make the command work with all major web-based email providers, as well as making it work with separate E-mail applications like Thunderbird. (If you're a programmer, <a href= Emailing =="">we'd love some help with that</a>.) For now, if you have a GMail account, please make sure you're logged in. If you don't, you might want to skip ahead to the next part of the tutorial. Assuming you're logged into your GMail account, issue "email". In the suggestion list, you'll see a suggestion that says "Email (message) (to contact)". [Picture] This is a clue that the Email command expects two pieces of information: the message is <b>what</b> you're emailing, and the contact is <b>who</b> you want to send it to. However, you can leave out one of these things -- or both of them -- and the Email command will still work. So I can issue any of these commands: * "email hello"* "email to chris"* "email hello to chris"* "email to chris hello" I'm using "chris" because that's the name of someone in my GMail contacts list. If you don't have a "chris" in your contacts list, just substitute the name of any of your friends in these examples. Let's say I've found an interesting fact on a web page and I want to send it to Chris. I can select part of the page, including links, pictures, and anything else, and then issue "email this to chris". Ubiquity understands "this" to refer to my selection. (I could also have said "email it to chris" or "email selection to chris" -- all of these are equivalent.) The selected part of the page shows up in my preview: [Picture -- note, please anonymize or blur out any actual email addresses appearing here!] I actually know several people named Chris, so there will be several lines in the suggestion list -- one for the email address of each Chris in my address book. I can arrow-key down to the one I want and then hit the Enter key. I'm taken to the GMail "compose new email" page. The chunk of the page that I selected is reproduced in the body of my email, the "to" field is filled with the email address I selected, and the "subect" field contains the title of the web page I was on. I can now edit this email to add anything else I want to say, before clicking "Send".
