Oops, I should have been clearer. The use case I had in mind was more
along the lines of wanting to save the contents of an email as a
contact:
Hey, here are the directions to the 'Best Restaurant in Town'
38 Spaghetti Loop
Town, State, Zip
Directions: xxx
It's really a contact-note that someone sent to you or maybe you sent
to yourself from another email client.
I agree that saving email addresses from emails shouldn't be modeled
as stamping.
Mimi
On Jul 12, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Davor Cubranic wrote:
On Thursday 12 July 2007 11:03:51 you wrote:
Stamping Contacts
+ I think we're in agreement that Stamping Contacts to add them to
the Task list / Calendar and vice versa is not particularly
compelling, although Ted said he would use that feature. (I still
feel we should leave this functionality in place for now and figure
out how to deal with these modeling issues through some usage.)
+ I believe we're also in agreement that jotting down a Note and
saving an Email as a Contact *are* compelling use cases.
I don't think the email use case is that compelling. The reason for
this
is that the email headers shown in DV could be used to *create* a
Contact, just the way in KMail while reading a message I can
right-click on an address in the header pane and choose "add to
address
book". Similarly, Thunderbird automatically creates a contact instance
with just the email address filled in (and name, if it can be
extracted
from the address) for every email I send, IIRC. Other mailers might
have similar functionality, and so this kind of workflow should be
reasonably familiar to a new user.
Davor
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