Hi Sherwood; Thanks for writing in. I have forwarded your email to the developer. Though I wouldn't be able to make any promises, just know that it has been read and we do take notes of what our customers would like to see.
Granville: Thanks for the suggestion. I hope it is a current option that will meet Sherwood's needs. :) Cheers; Jessica Customer Support Ninja On Saturday, April 12, 2014 8:06:10 PM UTC-4, Sherwood Botsford wrote: > > I would pay $50 for an app that replace both Apple Mail and Address > Book/Contacts if it could do the following: > > I'm looking for a Email/Gmail client that *really* understands gmail > labels, and has a tighter interface to the address book, or it's own > address book. > > Here's my dilemma: I've got 6000 contacts, including my 'other' bunch. > These are split between forums, friends, and business. Conversations are > labeled in Gmail. But this information is not reflected in contact groups. > > *A: I want 'smart contact groups' * > If I can filter on it, I want to be able to make a group for it, or > pull a list of addresses from it. E.g. label:lilacs after:1-Jan-2012 > I want to make a group that I've not had contact with for N > days/months/years. > I want to have a group of all people who participated in a conversation > where at least one message was labeled "Lilacs" > Show me all contacts with addresses in the From: To: or CC: fields in > messages with Subject:[Lilacs] > > *B: I want a way to show all conversations (threaded messages) that this > address participated in either as From: or To:* *but optionally ignore > BCC and CC.* > > Lots of these contacts are email address only. They are especially hard. > But even with a name, it's difficult. I want an address book that allows > me to edit the card, and view the relevant email at the same time. Looking > at the address I've usually no clue who it is. > > > To do this in Gmail contacts, I have to: > > Mouse over the contact in the list > Pause while the summary card shows up. > Click on show recent eails. > Possibly open one or more emails to figure out what/who this person is. > Try to find out what addtional information I can extract (name, phone,) > Keep all of this in my head, or do a bunch cut and paste to a separate > window. > Go back to contacts. > Find the address again. > Edit the card > Assign the card to one or more group lists. > After: Since I have a three screen setup, I run one browser window with > Contacts, and one with email, doing a search for each contact in the mail > window. More efficient than above, but it takes two monitors. *C: I > want an address book that shows what groups the contact is a member of.* > > *D: I want an address book that show what labels have been applied to this > person's messages. * > > My notion here is that the line between labels and groups gets blurred. > Labels can be used as source info for smart groups. Addresses are one of > the possible results for doing a search on messages. E.g. The default of a > search may be "show messages" But I want the option of a search to be > "show addresses" > > > *** > *E: I want the ability to 'relabel' so that if a label applies to one > message in a conversation, it applies to all of them.*Labels apply to > messages, not conversations. > > *F: I also want to be able to sort and filter messages and contacts by > things other than first or last name. *Show me members of group foo who > I've had no contact with in the last year. Sort the members of group bar > by the number of emails they have written to me. Find me addresses of > people I've emailed three times since their last email to me. > > *G: I want smart merge* > > One program I trialed lost all list information when you merged two > contacts. I want it to be smart enough to do the right thing most of the > time, based on timestamps. > > *H: I want to add people to certain lists on the basis of filters run on > incoming mail.* > > *I: I'd like the program to be smart enough to be taught patterns. * > > E.g. A kiiji response is in a certain format. If there is a name, it is > likely on the last line of the quoted response made on the kiiji web site. > I'd like it to be smart enough to spot things like, "My number is 780 555 > 1212" or Call me at… > > This intelligence needs to be able to cough up the snippet on demand. So > that I can see it in context. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
