Bongo
03-04-2008, 11:50 AM
At least two users have requested the ability to delete threads. While deleting threads is useful on its own, this suggestion actually points to a much more significant opportunity for Xobni.
Generally, Xobni’s abilities to pull together conversations and to do higher level sorting / searching on e-mail makes it a much better place from which to manage the Inbox than Outlook’s Advanced Search box.
It would be useful to be able to delete, sort, classify, and file the threads the Xobni gleans. I don’t know if it’s true for others, but I have the best intentions to file all/most of my e-mail, but because some e-mail authors don’t give every message a sufficiently specific subject, it’s not easy to do automatically.
Xobni could help by allowing the user easily to identify which conversations with a particular user are related to a particular topic, and which are either not part of a larger topic, or are part of other topics.
Then, Xobni could make it easy to move all of the e-mails from a particular topic into a folder, or delete them.
Indeed, Xobni could add heuristics to help suggest how to classify conversations (or parts of conversations) into topics by noticing the commonalities / differences in the recipient base in the various conversations or sub-conversations that are specified to belong to one or another topic, and even looking at words (possibly identified by the user) that are likely to arise in messages relating to a particular topic.
This sort of feature would raise Xobni from the level of cute curiosity to an indispensible inbox management tool.
Thoughts?
Bongo
Generally, Xobni’s abilities to pull together conversations and to do higher level sorting / searching on e-mail makes it a much better place from which to manage the Inbox than Outlook’s Advanced Search box.
It would be useful to be able to delete, sort, classify, and file the threads the Xobni gleans. I don’t know if it’s true for others, but I have the best intentions to file all/most of my e-mail, but because some e-mail authors don’t give every message a sufficiently specific subject, it’s not easy to do automatically.
Xobni could help by allowing the user easily to identify which conversations with a particular user are related to a particular topic, and which are either not part of a larger topic, or are part of other topics.
Then, Xobni could make it easy to move all of the e-mails from a particular topic into a folder, or delete them.
Indeed, Xobni could add heuristics to help suggest how to classify conversations (or parts of conversations) into topics by noticing the commonalities / differences in the recipient base in the various conversations or sub-conversations that are specified to belong to one or another topic, and even looking at words (possibly identified by the user) that are likely to arise in messages relating to a particular topic.
This sort of feature would raise Xobni from the level of cute curiosity to an indispensible inbox management tool.
Thoughts?
Bongo