I use plenty of sorting of the incoming mail to various folders according to which mailing list, project, company, group or machine the message refers to. But many of the contacts I interact with are actually members of several groups. Therefore it is not easy to keep a whole picture of the interactions. That is a shining application of vfolders : a vfolder with the contact's address a key will give me just what I need. But I have seen many co-worker's who sort by contact and do not know the power of the vfolders. They are no power users and never use filters : they believe it is way too complicated for them to use, they claim to have no time for learning and my evangelisation attempts about how filtering changes everything have so far failed. Most of those users only have an Inbox folder, and the ones who have sub-folders only sort manually. So what I propose is to automate the creation of vfolders for contacts to give those users a simple, fast and easy way to set up user based vfolders so that they can take advantage of that type of filtering without having to actually set up sub-folders and filters manually. Here is how I see it work : In the Vfolders top level folder, a sub folder would be named "Contacts". In the contact card, a button "create a new vfolder with this contact's addresses" would create a new vfolder in the Vfolders/Contacts folder. That's it. A simple way to leverage the power of vfolders by making them accessible to lazy users. Ergonomically speaking, it costs an additional button on the contact card. I do not know how much code that functionality represents. Am I the only one to think this feature may be interesting, or are there other who share my views ?
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