From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cworth@cworth.org (Carl Worth) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:46:41 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] What's your sup workflow (and a spew of ideas) In-Reply-To: <1250629282-sup-8521@yoom> References: <1250629282-sup-8521@yoom> Message-ID: <1250631221-sup-8993@yoom> Excerpts from Carl Worth's message of Tue Aug 18 14:02:05 -0700 2009: > Anyway, I've probably run into several other little things that I > didn't capture in this email, but I'll hopefully remember them > later. And of course, here are a few: inbox-mode ---------- * [dont-perturb-selected-thread-when-new-mail-arrives] I think I just saw the following race condition: 1. I have the top-most thread selected and I identify it as spam 2. I start moving to press the d key to delete it 3. Before I get their, new mail arrives and becomes selected 4. I delete mail I really care about I propose that new mail arriving should not cause the selector to move from the thread currently selected. label-list-mode --------------- * [allow-for-limiting-to-interesting-labels] In the workflow I described earlier, I process all mail mercilessly and get it archived and out of my inbox as quickly as possible. But some of those threads I identified as needing some significant time to deal with, so I labelled them to assign them to a particular "project". So, later, I'd like to look at my list of projects, choose one, and then choose the first task to be done. The label-list-mode is *almost* the perfect thing for this. The only problem is that it displays several labels, (with *lots* of messages each) that are not interesting to me at all in this sense. For example, killed and unread, for example, as well as several other labels that I use in ways other than my "project" labels. What I'd like here is a feature much like 'u' which toggles to display of only labels with unread messages, but insteads toggles to display only the labels that I've somehow marked as my "project" labels. (I'm not sure exactly how to name this feature for general use. The "project" sense is something personal to my usage. Maybe, "todo" or something?) inbox-mode/search-result-mode ----------------------------- * [display-number-of-unread-messages] In my ruthless scan while processing new messages, I want to be able to make split-second, yet accurate, decisions on whether I need to read messages, (and if so, how much time it will take). The current thread display shows a total number of messages within a thread, but that leads to me making an inaccurate estimate of how "expensive" it would be to read a thread. I'd much rather see the number of unread messages in the thread. Perhaps best would be to diplay both numbers such as: (1/64) with the 1 in bold to indicate that a thread with 64 total messages has 1 unread message. -Carl -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: