Cloud Generating a Lotus Notes Mailbox

“Wordle” is a very nice website that allows you to create “word clouds” from text as shown below.

More examples can be found within the gallery. The code to generate the cloud images is available from the ‘Word-Cloud Generator’ project part of IBM alphaWorks. However, what I really wanted to do is to generate a ‘cloud’ from a Lotus Notes mailbox. As the tool only requires a text file, it’s just a case of exporting the subject and body of the emails into a text file. (Initially, I was doing it with DXL and applying a style sheet as it was faster, but DXL crashes too often for my liking!)