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

[Oren Sreebny]

I'll also note that Pine offers you the option to flag a message (called
Important, but that's just by convention) and then you can select or
deselect those messages with an agregate operation.  Not as elegant as
what Kaitlin envisioned...but another workaround.

- Oren


On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Joseph N. wrote:

>    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
>
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