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

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:25 -0800, Michael M. wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 19:59 -0600, Jack 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.
>
> Perhaps Tomboy can come close to doing what you want?  It's a Gnome
> "sticky note" app that sits in the panel.  It can link to received
> emails, and according to the website, will be able to create Evolution
> ToDo's and Tasks.  Other stuff too.
>
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/
>
> Worth a look anyway.

You can link mail to a note, but you can't link a note to a mail.

But there is so much other info locally attached to an email in evo
(like flags and so on) that it can't need a total re-write to link
another bit info that will trigger a dbus event to open a tomboy note.
(But I say that not having done any programming for years!!)

Pete