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Re: .mail app

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Post by ChronoGawd »

bman101 wrote: post #46
ChronoGawd wrote: post #40

Seem very similar to Mail Pilot (www.mail-pilot.com), although Mail Pilot seems that it will still be a monthly paid service, as .Mail app doesn't (at least I couldn't find if it is). Which is a big deal for me. As for .Mail seems like you pay for the app such as Sparrow (which it looks similar too) and not have to pay monthly for it. I plan on buying it if it comes out as it shows and does what it does. Anyone know…

Looks like Mail Pilot will have apps for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.

I am in the beta and it looks pretty heavily Java. Which I personally don't like as much as Sparrow being a native app in all OS's... I feel like the Desktop apps are going to be Adobe Air, or some web Java app as it is now.

Re: .mail app

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Post by kyro »

mnicole wrote: post #51
kyro wrote: post #21

First thing I thought of when I read the heading Actionsteps was being able to tailor actions specific to each email. For instance, you receive an email from Twitter saying someone's following you, and you're given the options to either "follow", "@reply", "ignore", etc, and similarly for Facebook. Receive a bill from ATT and your next steps are "pay bill", "file as important", "put on to-do." You're essentially cont…

Is IFTTT too generic to do something like that?

I suppose it could handle some tasks that apply universally to one type of email message from a given source, but not for most that involve highly personalized/sensitive information – bank statements, scheduling appointments, etc.

Re: .mail app

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Post by modarts »

Issue in Chrome [v 20.0.1132.47 m]

Focusing in the email textbox, followed by tabbing out causes the box to shift down (pretty sure that's not intentional)

Re: .mail app

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Post by charltones »

nailer wrote: post #48
irahul wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> concepts such as embracing the fact that it is not truly productive to file every single e-mail into a purposeful folder, embracing that tagging is better than folders. I don't know if it was there from the beginning, but I have always used rules which say "apply filter and skip inbox" effectively giving me separate folders. To each his own; I don't like kitchen-sink inbox, and like separate folders to just tagging…

Sure, re: skipping inbox, me too. But tagging allows you to have a folder-like appearance but removes to 1:1 relationship. I can have a folder of 'emails sent to me specifically' and an 'emails from my accountant' that happens to have the same message. This is super useful.

This is a great feature but is older than GMail. Lotus Notes mail for instance allowed the same mail to appear in different views, including an "all documents" view that had, as you might expect, everything in it. This advance was rather let down by the rest of the Notes client interface however: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm

Re: .mail app

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Post by state »

What I think is most interesting about this is how successfully implemented this PR campaign is. I think some of the criticism of the app is warranted: but we have nothing concrete to look at, and no real information about how the app will be developed. It seems likely to be a case of someone believing too much in the power of 'design' while overlooking the importance of 'implementation'. If I could somehow be convinced that these two things were conceived of holistically by the creator I'd be much more interested.

I do, however, really applaude the precision with which this project has appealed to people's desires.

Re: .mail app

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Post by winter_blue »

It would be great if instead of having to build a new app ground up every time we want to add a few features, if we could simply add those features to the existing application.

This would be a lot easier if that application was open source, but having a modular architecture and malleable/extensible design would be more important.

Does anyone have thoughts on application that are designed such that features can be added to it easily?

Re: .mail app

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Post by samstave »

astral303 wrote: post #12

Best of luck w/ the implementation. However, reading the concept, I am unimpressed. In Mail.app, I can already mark e-mails with different-colored flags, which allows me to come up with my own "get back soon" or "get back later" type of a system. The assertion that e-mail hasn't changed since 1970's is false. Modern e-mail clients manage it much better. Compare Mail.app, Outlook and GMail to PINE--the difference is s…

Just off the top of my head you know what I would like to see as an email interface: Reddit.

Each headline being the suvject being an email with all the comments being the replies. Different users can reply in a threaded way to all the recipients of the message etc.

Obviously it would need in-line attachements and in-line pictures.

It would be interesting to allow a vote system on messages. Rather than file them, you down or up vote them. But in your box, you have more than one vote so you can apply more or less weight to info. Along with tags and groups and many other things that I can think of...

That would be cool.

Re: .mail app

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Post by taylorfausak »

danneu wrote: post #60
wonderzombie wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple Mail has it. I think you can tell it whether you want to see newest-first or the reverse, as well.

Actually, Mail.app's lack of conversation view was one of its definitive dealbreakers for me. In particular, it doesn't include you or your sent mail in the conversation ( http://i.imgur.com/Atkcu.png ). It only lets you expand the email quotation to let you dig through nested context ( http://i.imgur.com/1Zj2e.png ). Compare this to gmail ( http://i.imgur.com/mLel3.png ) that actually handles it as a conversation. I…

I too was frustrated by Mail.app's lack of a proper conversation view. Turns out, there's a setting to show messages you sent. In the "Viewing" section of Mail.app's preferences, enable "Include related messages". http://imgur.com/i5Eaq

Re: .mail app

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Post by Spooky23 »

joshaidan wrote: post #24

"Actionsteps solves the flagging problem, where every email you know that you need to respond to is of equal importance." Wouldn't it be interesting if the sender of an email could specify what Actionsteps are required for a given email? i.e. The sender specifies that an email should be: read by the receiver, replied to by the receiver, forwarded to a specific department, complete a specific task, etc.

Sounds like it's time to party like it's 1992 with Lotus Notes.
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