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24 From: Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr>
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25 To: Darren McGuicken <mailing-notmuch@fernseed.info>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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26 Subject: Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?
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50 On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:39:37 +0000, Darren McGuicken <mailing-notmuch@fernseed.info> wrote:
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51 > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr> wrote:
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52 > > Here is first a patch that copes with this last point. Whenever you
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53 > > want to archive a thread, it finds whether you forgot to add a custom
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54 > > "user" tag to a message, and if so asks you for a tag to add before
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55 > > archiving. That way, I no longer have messages without any tags.
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57 > Hmm, this would be very irritating in my own workflow in which I really
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58 > only use a small number of tags on a fraction of my total mail archive
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59 > to differentiate mail type or content which can't otherwise be
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60 > determined from the indexed plain text of the message (I don't like to
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61 > add a 'notmuch' tag to mail from the list for instance since a saved
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62 > search for mail sent to the list address does exactly the same thing).
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64 I prefer to add tags, for the following reasons:
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66 - If I want to search through a mailing list, I don't have to remember
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67 its address. Saved searchs solve the problem only partly, because I
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68 am not able to make complex queries involving several saved
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69 searches. This could be solved only by making notmuch aware of saved
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72 - I have some collection of emails that belong to a topic, even if the
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73 topic does not appear in it. For instance, if I receive mails about a
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74 project "foo", it can happen that foo is not mentionned in it.
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76 - I think that adding more informations to mail help find it, even if
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77 it fills my screen with tag names. Basically, I use tags for several
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79 - to label information
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80 - to indicate actions that have to be done (like todo, waiting, done, etc)
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81 - the other are mail-related tags (inbox, attachment, replied etc).
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83 > I agree that the spacebar does too much if you're just using a search on
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84 > the inbox tag and want something to stay visible even when you've
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85 > quickly spacebar'd through a thread and archived it, but in my case that
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86 > was easily solved by creating a new default saved search called 'todo'
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87 > which collects unread, manually tagged 'todo' and mail matching a number
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88 > of other criteria into one place. When something has been followed-up
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89 > on, I remove the tag.
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91 But the space bar removes the unread tag, so I do not see how it
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92 helps... By default, hitting the space bar throughout a thread would
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93 remove every tag from the thread, so you keep asking "where was the mail
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94 in my inbox that I have read and I can't find anymore?"
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96 > Colouring threads using notmuch-search-line-faces is also very useful in
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97 > that one-stop 'todo' view.
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99 > Would any of that work for you? Why are plain text or header searches
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100 > not able to find the mail you're looking for?
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102 Of course, I can change my patch so that its behaviour can be customized
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