Re: [Evolution] Feature Suggestion - Sticky notes for email messages

["Sebastien Duval" <sduval know 2006 gmail com>]

Hi Jack,
Thanks for the proposal, it is always nice to have ideas flying around.

I think that associating information to e-mails can be useful.
However, from your description, I wonder what would be the interest of
the notes compared to simply sending an e-mail to yourself containing
the information to add... Sending an e-mail to yourself has the
additional advantage to make the information available when using
another computer (on the move, whatever). Have You considered this
simple alternative? If so, what advantage did You see in using sticky
notes instead?

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SÃbastien Duval, PhD
National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan)

On 2/17/07, Jack <brooksfamily sunflower com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>         I apologize if this suggestion has already been made before or if folks
> don't think it is a good one.  I think Evolution is a fantastic product
> and, as I deal with a large amount of email in my job, I thought of a
> feature that might help Evolution get more of an edge over MS Outlook:
> sticky notes on emails.
>
> Like I said, I deal with a lot of email at work (sometimes I feel like
> emailing IS my job...) and as I go through various chains, I sometimes
> lose track of what is going on with the subject matter in one or
> another.  So I thought, it would really be nice if I could attach
> something like sticky notes to emails to remind myself that something
> had occurred outside the email chain (like a face to face discussion)
> that had an impact on the subject matter in the email chain.  For
> instance, maybe a decision was being asked for, but the response was
> made over the phone.  So, there's never a response to the email asking
> for a decision.  What I have in mind is that you could right-click (or
> left click for you left-handers) on the email and attach a sticky note
> (could look just like a desktop note) where you could note to yourself
> that the decision was made and what it was.  Then, when looking at the
> email at some later date, when you put your cursor over it, the sticky
> note would pop up and you would see the note to yourself.
>
> The sticky note would not be sent with any forwards or responses to
> emails and would just remain on that user's account (or maybe an option
> could exist to send the note along with the forwarded email).
>
> I do not mean this to be confused with turning an email into a Task.
> This is basically desktop sticky notes meant to be attached to specific
> emails.
>
> Again, I apologize if this is something that's already been thought of
> and shot down or scheduled to be included.  I also have to apologize
> because I don't know how to write programs otherwise I'd create it
> myself and submit for approval.  I'm an intermediate computer user that
> can install a linux distribution and get it to run some programs that I
> like and that's about it.  In short, I know just enough to be a danger
> to my computer.  :)
>
> Thank you all for creating a fantastic product!  I hope my idea is a
> positive one!
>
> Jack