Feature Ideas

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Collecting ground for ideas that could go into the design.

Mail

• Reference mails while composing mail
  • It should be possible to view other mails for reference while composing a mail, with minimal interruption to the workflow.
  • Drag & drop parts of other threads/mails to quote it in your mail

• Focus Mode for mail composer

• Focus Reading mode
  • A fullscreen interface to quickly go through inbox and categorize all mails.

• Accounts as activities
  • Set current account to avoid having to select that explicitly.

• Automatically determine identity to use
  • Determine identity to use for responses by selecting the identity matching the email address that the mail has been sent to.
  • Potentially determine identity by currently selected folder and the most used address there.

• Send email
  • First select account (if necessary), second address in a nice popup with searchbar (like phone), then compose message

• Global undo
  • All actions are reversible, even if just for a short period.

• Summary page
  • Unread mails
  • Open invitations
  • Open todos
  • Upcoming events

• Attachments in the cloud
  • Save attachments to cloud.
  • Attach from cloud

• Invitation inbox
  • Move invitations to open invitations and don't keep them in the mail inbox.

• Attachment metadata
  • Keep metadata with saved attachment to find mail again where the attachment is coming from.

• Attachment view

• Folder navigation
  • enabled state
  • github-like tree presentation
  • Only present parent hierarchy of folder
  • Make non-enabled folders browsable by expanding any visible folder (in the worst case that is the account's toplevel folder)
    • The non-enabled folders vanish again when navigating outside of the currently selected subtree

• Thread navigation
  • Flat threadlist. Expand to github-like navigation in list view.
  • Conversation view in message viewer.

• Application navigation
  • Always visible sidebar with application icons (for d&d), expands with names on hover

• Composer
  • Inline for quick replys
  • Composer is an overlay (focus mode style)
  • For referencing stuff the left side of the overlay turns into a partial application view that allows to reference all content in kube (mails, events, todos, ...). This doesn't mess with the current application state.
  • Detatch composer into separate window still useful for:
    • Reference stuff outside of kube
    • Have multiple composers open

• Per account contact favorites for recepient selection

• Always assemble full threads including sent mails
  • deduplicate for users that get their own replies from the mailinglist

• Sent mail folder
  • Not configurable outside of account (a pop account just has a local maildir as well for that)

• Open sender in addressbook
  • Any sender can be viewed in the addressbook viewer, information from available vcards is automatically merged in

• Show all attachments of a thread in the thread header
  • But also show them next to the actual message header

• Only show subject of thread once
  • Show again in case of change in the middle of a thread

• Outbox
  • One for the complete client
  • Appears only when something is in the queue and shows count or error state
  • Flat list with send-later date visualization and potential error state
  • Delete, edit, retry sending actions
  • D&d on outbox or removing outbox is not possible

• Unified messaging

Addressbook

• Search centric interface

• Prioritize favorites by statistics
  • Current account first, always
  • Prioritize most recent/most used
  • Favorites is a fixed number of contacts (i.e. 5)
  • The rest is alphabetic

• Forward contact without notes
  • Notes likely contain personal information that you don't always want to share with third parties. When forwarding a contact we can ask if the notes should be sent as well and default to not sending them.

• Deduplicate contacts to persons

• Provide interface to setup and visualize trust for crypto
  • Green lock for secure

Faceted Search

• Instead or additionally to a powerful query syntax faceted search should make it easy to assemble multiple search constraints
  • Search first for the folder you're interested, then search for the actual mail
• Substring match for autocompletion (command-t)

Project as Context

• Set a project (a glorified tag) as context to automatically have:
  • Relevant contacts first in addressbook
  • Different mail folder selection
  • Relevant tasklists and notebooks
  • Relevant calendars and events
  • Shareable projects that automatically share notes/tasklists/mailinglists/....