Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > One point. Priority is there for a purpose.
>
> Absolutely. That purpose is assigning priorities to your messages. And
> that's basically what the labels feature will do.
Yes, if that's what you want, go for it. That's not it's primary
purpose, though. I can use labels to highlight all my bugzilla mail
without having to make separate subfolders for everything. Plus I can
sort the folder by Label making it a lot easier to manage if I need to
find a specific email.
> > Using it as a filing
> > system would be much like using the ALT attribute as a tooltip.
>
> Labels are not a filing system. Your IMAP folders are a filing system.
Labels are most definitely *part* of a filing system. Ask anyone who
works for a doctor's office. Priority, however, isn't. That fact that
you can sort on Priority is simply a matter of convenience.
> > If my boss sends me an email as high priority, I don't want to change it
> > - but I want to be able to group all the emails from my boss (work and
> > home accounts) as one. Yes, I could create a folder just for my bosses
> > emails, but if I start doing that, as I said, my mail folders would
> > quickly become unmanagable.
>
> Why? If our search UI doesn't easy allow searching a subset of folders,
> we should fix the search UI, not force people to group messages in the
> same folder just to be able to search them easily.
What does search have to do with it? I haven't said a word about
search. I don't use subfolders because, in quite a few cases, I'd end
up with a huge amount of subfolders with almost nothing in them, making
things an unmanagable mess. It would be *much* easier simply to make a
way to subdivide *within* a folder. And, no, using Priority as a hack
isn't an option.
Justin H.
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