[Design] filters: Subject to automation

[Dennis Lynch]

Speaking of email headers, and sorting/filtering of emails:

Aren't we really talking about "email header metadata"?

I would like to see the user have the option of adding "keywords" to the email header, 
thereby providing an additional way for recipients to categorize their emails.

This Email for example, would have the following keywords applied (some could be 
applied automatically perhaps):
  1- Chandler
  2- Design
  3- email
  4- headers
  5- metadata
  6- automation
  7- filters
  8- discussion (this is kind of a "type" field, other emails could be "request", 
"response", "decision", "rejection", "action required", "other", etc.)
  9- thread-94tj2ix9fug (just some random code I made up, would be program generated 
for any message that isn't already in a thread.)

Other Chandler users could then easily filter this email.  This could also become some 
sort of positive "viral factor", which would speed up the adoption of Chandler as the 
benefit of this is quite obvious.

I don't know enough about the W3 spec for email, and this may not be possible, but I 
have sure seen lots of stuff added to headers, so why not this.  It would sure muck-up 
the subject line if we tried to put all that stuff in there!

Just a thought...

Dennis Lynch
Lynch Business Advisors