Fwd: [Design] Distinguishing a collection as a "user collection"

Dennis Lynch dmlynch1 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 22:25:45 PST 2006


I hope I am not adding a totally new, off-the-wall twist to the
concept of collections.. but to me, I think of things this way..
  - there are some pre-defined collectiond- "email", "contacts",
"notes", "tasks", perhaps some others.
  - then there are labels, which are collections.
  - also, labels are all part of a pre-defined collection called
"labels" (are these are all user-defined?)
  - then there are queries, which are collections as well
  - also, queries are all part of a pre-defined collection called "queries"
  - of course queries can be based on virtually any attribute in the
database, including labels, collections of labels, queries, and all
the avrious intrinsic attirbutes, like date-generated, sent-from (for
emails), etc etc
  - there probably should be a collection called "other" which means
"items not in a collection" <== this would help prevent items from
getting lost

Thanks for your continued efforts... anxiously awaiting the next release.

Dennis Lynch
dmlynch [at] alum.mit [dot] edu
dmlynch1 [at] gmail [dot] com
> Make email more useful by using Labels in your subject line:
IMPT- important message
INFO - general information
JOKE- self-explanatory
QRY- an unsolicited query/question
REPL- reply to your message
URGT- urgent message requiring immediate attention


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