RE: remind-me-later: resend email at some future date

I completely agree with the principle of mailbox views. I am researching =
and
prototyping the use of views with Microsoft Outlook right now - and they
have a lot of promise for managing your 'inbox'.

If you don't mind me asking Karl, what are your most useful 'views'?  By
month/date?  What UI software/technology do you use to set up your smart
mailboxes?=20

Curtis

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From: fogo-bounces@impressive.net [mailto:fogo-bounces@impressive.net] =
On
Behalf Of Karl Dubost
Sent: January-13-09 1:46 PM
To: Ian Jacobs
Cc: fogo@impressive.net
Subject: Re: remind-me-later: resend email at some future date


Le 13 janv. 2009 =E0 19:13, Ian Jacobs a =E9crit :
> Clarification: You are not moving email. You are selecting different =20
> folders for
> viewing, one at a time. That is also a form of moving around. I only =20
> ever look in my inbox, so I don't have the "UI" moving around.
>
> Have I understood?

hihi not exactly. Summary: I work in dynamic contexts and/or on a =20
general view of everything if I need (your inbox).

I use smart mailboxes (dynamic ones). So for example what you call =20
your inbox would be my "to:karl@=85" smart mailbox, where I can set the  =

number of days, weeks or months. Usually I set around 1 month but it =20
could be 1 year. The number of unread messages are visible.

My flagged messages smart mailbox has no date limit, so there is the =20
oldest to the most recent message and I named it "to read again" aka =20
this is to reply.

When I was working at W3C, I had a smart mailbox "from:ij@=85 =
to:karl@=85" =20
which is another contextual view which is a bit more constrained than =20
the one above.

The principle is that a message is not in one physical mailbox but can =20
belong to multiple virtual mailboxes (or contexts if you prefer). It =20
is not duplicate, there is only one physical message put in /2009/01/. =20
For example right now, there are 505 messages for January month. Note =20
that I could have chosen to put everything under a directory /2009/ =20
and then moved to next year but not very practical.

The benefit is that I focus on what I really need to do only, and  at =20
the same time be subscribed to many mailing lists without necessary =20
having to read them.

If I ever need to read a thread where I was not included at the start, =20
I can go back to the right mailing list smart mailbox (context) or =20
create it if it didn't exist. The search of Apple Mail gives most of =20
the time enough power to find something. (There are missing =20
features).  Result: I barely used the mail search engine of W3C, =20
except if I was not subscribed to the mailing list.


(PS: I have (had) also two different email addresses one for pro and =20
one for perso and two entirely different imap accounts for them. This =20
for sanity in personal life.)



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Karl Dubost
Montr=E9al, QC, Canada

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