Don't need any third-party tool. Just drag your MIDI files into the iTunes Library (literally), then select the newly added song and convert to AIFF. Finally drag this new version of the song as a new track to GarageBand. Mind you, all the MIDI information is lost in the process, so make sure you're satisfied with it.
This research is a definite step in the right direction: the visualization they propose is providing information that may not be obvious the most email users, such as the patterns that some email threads follow. If this approach becomes popular, people will soon figure out ways to recognize specific patterns and act on the thread as a whole.
Eventually the email client could determine how to filter or sort an entire thread based on your previous actions. Say for example you always archive "broadcast" emails that are sent by a given sender, the visualization of this thread would look "bushy" (to use the authors notation) and combined with the sender it would provide a clear trigger for the archive operation, leaving direct emails from the same person untouched by the operation.
But I insist, the beauty of this approach is the possibility of people realizing the multitude of repetitive patterns existing within their emails and taking advantage of this knowledge.
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Don't need any third-party tool. Just drag your MIDI files into the iTunes Library (literally), then select the newly added song and convert to AIFF. Finally drag this new version of the song as a new track to GarageBand. Mind you, all the MIDI information is lost in the process, so make sure you're satisfied with it.
Eventually the email client could determine how to filter or sort an entire thread based on your previous actions. Say for example you always archive "broadcast" emails that are sent by a given sender, the visualization of this thread would look "bushy" (to use the authors notation) and combined with the sender it would provide a clear trigger for the archive operation, leaving direct emails from the same person untouched by the operation.
But I insist, the beauty of this approach is the possibility of people realizing the multitude of repetitive patterns existing within their emails and taking advantage of this knowledge.