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

[Jack <brooksfamily sunflower com>]

Hi Sebastien!
        Thanks for the feedback!  I must admit I did not think of sending
myself an email with updated note to myself.  I think the added benefit
of having a pop-up sticky note type of thing would be that it jumps out
at you whereas an email to yourself might have a tendency of getting
lost in the clutter, so-to-speak.

Another benefit would be less of a burden on the email server maybe?
With the notes, you're just adding to the email whereas sending an email
to yourself creates adds to more traffic and more email in your folders.
All this might be a non-factor though; I'm really just speculating on
this point.  The real benefit, I think is that the sticky note is
something that would jump out and not sort of get sort of blended into
the background of the email chain.

Also, with sending yourself an email, you'd have to open that email (or
at least click on it to see it in the preview window).  The sticky note,
as I envision it, would just pop up when you put your cursor on an email
in your list without clicking on it.  (maybe that's not a good thing?)

I envision the sticky note being something that, as attached to the
email, would stick to it regardless of where you accessed that
particular email.  But I don't want to try to get too detailed into the
hows and design specifics as I simply lack the knowledge to do so.  I've
got the basic idea in mind but have no idea how it would be created or
implemented.

I apologize if I'm not describing it well.  It's all very clear in my
head but I am sometimes not the best at describing my own ideas.
Fortunately, there are much smarter people in the world than me.  :)

On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:13 +0900, Sebastien Duval wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> 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
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