Re[2]: [Design] Recognizing a response, and group filters

[Joseph N.]

   On Monday, March 03, 2003, Kaitlin Duck Sherwood wrote in
<mid:E254AFBC-4DAD-11D7-810F-0003937C1920@osafoundation.org>:

> FYI, in Eudora, here's a way to fake the "done/not done" marker: +
> have your incoming filters set the Label but leave the messages in
> the inbox + sort the inbox first by label, second by date + have
> your manual filters move messages to their final resting place When
> you go through your messages, if you are done with it, hit
> Control-J. If you are not done with it, move to the next message.

An alternative that does not rely on--or clutter up--the inbox is the
way a similar function is implemented in The Bat!.  Assign the label,
which in TB! is called a color group, manually or automatically by
filter.  Let the messages continue to be filtered as desired, whether
before or after being read, or manually after some action.  Then when
appropriate, search for the color group.  In TB!, a virtual mailbox is
created by the search, holding all messages with that color group;
yet they also remain in their sorted mailboxes.

A more complex but also more useful implementation is in Time Matters,
which is a practice management program containing e-mail functionality
(on its own or in conjunction with an external MAPI-compliant MUA). An
e-mail message can be clicked into another type of form, e.g.,
contact, task, event, phone, etc., with some information already
filled in. Or the message can be linked to any of those elements or to
a matter, and be viewable through them. Consequently there are several
different ways to combine an e-mail message with a task.

-- 
JN