Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

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+From: Darren McGuicken <mailing-notmuch@fernseed.info>\r
+To: Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?\r
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+On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:35:22 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr> wrote:\r
+> I prefer to add tags, for the following reasons:\r
+\r
+It sounds like we do much the same things with our mail except that your\r
+approach is quite disciplined and mine quite lazy :-)\r
+\r
+>  - If I want to search through a mailing list, I don't have to\r
+>  remember its address. Saved searchs solve the problem only partly,\r
+>  because I am not able to make complex queries involving several saved\r
+>  searches. This could be solved only by making notmuch aware of saved\r
+>  searches.\r
+\r
+[...]\r
+\r
+> By default, hitting the space bar throughout a thread would remove\r
+> every tag from the thread, so you keep asking "where was the mail in\r
+> my inbox that I have read and I can't find anymore?"\r
+\r
+As it's so quick, I tend to search my entire archive, even for new\r
+messages, through progressive stages of filtering (which is really all\r
+that a saved search is) starting off knowing only vaguely what it is\r
+that I'm looking for.\r
+\r
+For instance 'there was something on the notmuch list about printing\r
+format issues recently' would be 's to:notmuch' 'f print' 'f format' etc\r
+until I see what I'm looking for (or something similar) in the results.\r
+That particular set of steps gives me a buffer with 24 threads in it,\r
+the second of which is what I was looking for.  I tend not to even\r
+bother with subject header based searches unless I know for sure that\r
+what I'm looking for had an unusual subject.\r
+\r
+It sounds like a lot of work when I write it out long-form, but it's\r
+incredibly intuitive and so far always gets me what I need.\r
+\r
+I can see your approach has its own merits though.\r
+\r
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