[Design] email: hiding messages in inbox until X

[joel finkle]

>From: Peter Bojanic <peter@bojanic.ca>
>To: Kaitlin Duck Sherwood <ducky@webfoot.com>
>CC: OSAF Design List <design@osafoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: [Design] email: hiding messages in inbox until X
>Date: 04 Dec 2002 17:12:44 -0500
>
>On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 17:00, Kaitlin Duck Sherwood wrote:
> > Sometimes you get an email message that you can't deal with right
> > away because you need more information.  It might be nice to have a
> > simple way to tell Chandler, "Hide this message until X", where X
> > might be things like
> >     + 2 PM on 11 December 2002
> >     + I get another message from this sender
> >     + I get a message from winston@flossrecycling.com
> >     + the database upgrade task is marked as clear
> > This keeps the task associated with the message out of your way until
> > you have the information or resources to deal with it.
> >
> > It might also be nice to have the ability to hide "to-do" list items 
>until X.
>
>I too like the idea of "bring forward" a message as a task for a future
>date.
>
>The concept of hiding could be generalized with view filtering, so that
>I can select what items appear in my current view based on a number of
>rules. The rules can be saved as a named view and applied to any
>appropriate list.
>

Hmm... I can see all kinds of applications for this.
Even things as simple as a monthly report, due every month -- I really don't 
need six months of it on my horizon at all times, only say, the last week of 
the month.

Wedding Anniversaries and Birthdays, perhaps a month's warning.

This is sounding like it's overlapping with reminders.

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