[Design] Could we edit messages before permanent storage and/ or answering?

[Charlie Joynt]

We should be able to edit messages if we want to. I already do this
frequently to cross-index emails with feedback I get from websites, etc.
When checking the email at a later date I can see at a glance what it is in
reference to without relying on whoever sent me the email to have made that
reference clear.

If we're in the mood for metaphors or analogy then... I don't keep the
envelopes that my bank statements arrive in or the junk mail that is
attached. I do keep the statements themselves.

As for removing attachments (someone mentioned this?) then could we use a
system whereby one right-clicks the attachment and chooses 'commit to HDD',
replacing the attachment with a URL for the file.

Charlie

>-----Original Message-----
>From: joel finkle [mailto:joelfinkle@hotmail.com]
>Sent: 03 November 2002 00:23
>To: nick@mahuika.co.nz; design@osafoundation.org
>Subject: Re: [Design] Could we edit messages before permanent storage
>and/or answering?
>
>
>>From: Nick Virtue >One thing that I really miss from an old 
>email program 
>>(Poco) I used was the ability to edit the subject and add 
>annotations to a 
>>message.
>
>Hmm... annotations to a message I definitely want, and would 
>use in ways I 
>can't think of now -- the best kind of feature.
>
>One 'metaphor' I can think of is that an annotation to a 
>message is the 
>equivalent of a thought balloon in a comic strip panel full of 
>word balloons 
>-- it's part of the communication, but only known to the self.
>
>Perhaps an annotation is a private part of a thread: from you to you.
>
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