[Design] mail: digestion and attached emails

[Bruce Dykes]

--- Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:

> It would also be nice to be able treat a digest as a
> container container of
> multiple logical items (which is what it really is)
> rather than just as a
> single item -- much like a zip file or a tarball.
> 
> This would enable many useful things in the UI in
> addition to the one you
> mentioned above. For example, when a digest appears
> in the inbox, it might
> have a little "+" icon to its left (like a tree
> control) that lets you drop
> down and expansion list of its logical contents.
> Opening one of these
> logical items could display a synthesized email
> containing only that item.
> 
> Perhaps there is a general theme here on the ability
> for Chandler to support
> other contains of items, like zip files and
> tarballs.

Which segues nicely to todays feature requests:

Digest views.
It'd be nice to be able to select a bunch of messages
and add them to a digest, which is to say, a single
message with a whole bunch of emails in chronological
order as the body of the message. We'll need to be
able to flag the digest as either open or closed. With
a right click, I should be able to add an email to a
digest, or jump to a filter building screen that lets
me select criteria to add messages to a digest
automatically. I should also be able to forward a
digest as a single email, and export it for editing
and adding to other applications, such as wikis and
websites.

Attached emails.
I'd like to be able to force all attached emails to
inline views, ala Yahoo's web email interface. Last
night I had an email with two nested emails attached.
Ugh!

bkd


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