From: Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:48:12 +0100
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:05:23 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr> wrote:
> >  - 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.
> 
> I don't understand this at all. You can find messages by searching for
> anything about them (sender, subject, body). In what way is it
> 'impossible'?

Impossible was a bit strong. But if for instance I hit space in a
inboxed mail in a thread with one mail, without taking too much time to
study it, then I will know that I forgot to process one mail without
knowing which one it is. I used to find such mails by searching for
mails without any tags, but this was cumbersome. My present patch is a
better attempt to fix this.
 
> Using tags to group things is great, I agree, but coercing me into
> adding tags that I don't really need seems strange.

It is just a way to ensure that all your mails are properly filed, and
file them quickly.

Matthieu