[PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

Matthieu Lemerre racin at free.fr
Fri Nov 12 08:39:31 PST 2010


Hi, Jamie.

> 
> >  - I often find myself hitting the spacebar too much, which ends up with
> >    some of my new messages being removed from all of their tags, which
> >    make them very difficult to find. I don't think the spacebar should
> >    remove the inbox tag at all. It should only change the unread tag.
> 
> I agree that the function currently bound to space bar is annoying.  I
> am actually in the middle of preparing a patch to fix this.  I think
> that space should just scroll through the open messages.  I don't want
> it to archive anything, or pop out of the currently viewed thread.  I
> think this function is too aggressive as is.

Great! Then I'll be waiting for your patch.

> >  - It does not provide a command for deleting mails. We were several
> >    people who provided patches to add a 'd' keybinding to support
> >    deletion. I provided a complex patch for that (that added "and not
> >    tag:deleted" to all requests", but I now think that just adding a
> >    "deleted" tag and removing the "inbox" tag would be sufficient).
> 

[...]


> I do *not* think that adding the "deleted" tag should remove the inbox
> tag.  If you want to view your inbox without seeing the deleted
> messages, then just use the search "tag:inbox and not tag:deleted".

Good idea, yes.

> 
> >  - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is
> >    boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to
> >    add a tag, and then "a". If I forget about +, then my mail is
> >    impossible to find.
> 
> Again, I achieve archiving with some simple custom functions:
> 

[...]

OK, but this does not solve the problem of forgetting to put a tag when
archiving a thread. Also my patch allows to put a tag without having to
press "+" (so you don't have to think about adding tags when you archive
your mail, you only have to press "a" and be reminded about it).

Matthieu


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