[Design] Email (and other) ideas

[Warner Onstine]

On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 01:43 PM, James Tauber wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:22:50 -0500, "joel finkle"
> <joelfinkle@hotmail.com> said:
>> Yes, but I still want a folder (note: I haven't actually seen Zoe).
> [...]
>> Now, if I can tag each message as being a "Wumpus Project" message, 
>> and a
>> "Contractors" message, and so on, and have a GUI that feels like a 
>> folder
>> structure that has a list of predefined queries, and the performance 
>> is
>> just as good?  Go ahead, I don't need folders.
>
> I agree that the folder is still a good UI metaphor. As long as the
> folder is essentially a *view* based on properties rather than being a
> physical location. This way documents can be in multiple folders. You
> can, in effect, have a folder that reflects any grouping of
> documents/emails/contacts/events that it makes sense to have depending 
> on
> the context in which you are working at any point in time.

Zoe automatically saves searches that you do, so I don't see any reason 
why you can't make searches permanent 'folders'.

Basically Zoe's default view is today with a calendar on the right. In 
addition to the calendar you have links to contributors, message 
threads. There is also a way to do a permanent link to a message but I 
haven't tried this so I can't describe this behavior.

-warner

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