Feature Ideas
Feature Ideas
Collecting ground for ideas that could go into the design.
- 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/....
- Last Author
- mollekopf
- Last Edited
- Jan 11 2016, 6:21 PM