Hi all,
On Friday, October 01, 1999, 3:43:12 AM (-5 GMT), Claude scribbled:
AM>> A time. Wouldn't that time vary depending on how many messages you have
AM>> in that particular folder. I see a lot of potential problems there. I
AM>> still think that your feature is worthwhile but only workable through a
AM>> manual toggle switch or through filters.
> The time you need to read a post vary, too, depending on how many
> lines you have in it. But, after a time you've defined, it's marked
> "unread". Did you have any problem with that? I had, from time to
> time: what I do is to hit ctrl+U and mark it unread.
Exactly, but that is one message per incident.
Suppose you get 30 messages in a folder and you are picking out the
interesting ones to read and some are long. You reach message 15 of the
new messages, while there are some twenty seen messages for later.
Suddenly there's a timeout and all the new messages are changed to
'seen.' I say, Aw shucks and have to look for the new ones to continue
reading. Wouldn't it be better if you read what you wanted to and then
at the end hit a keyboard shortcut which would label all unread messages
'seen' and not 'new' and then you move on?
Automaticity has it's problems and esp. so with your type of proposal.
> If you want a manual toggle, It may be this one, as it is a better
> priorities management to spend time, hand working, with urgent posts,
> than to spend it with all the non-urgents.
Sure.
> In this case:
> Red (new posts in): I open the folder.
> A time (user defined): All "new" posts in it are marked "seen".
> Orange.
> (If I want, for any reason, to keep one "new")
> I press ctrl+something: This particular post is marked "new". Red.
> Agreed?
Yes.
> Please notice two thing.
> 1- People who don't like this option may just act as if red and orange
> were the same color and don't make *any* change in their habits.
No, they just can't act. Multicolored folders get in the way unless they
have some useful meaning to the user.
> 2- When I open a red folder, I *know* that it's going to be orange.
> So, I go and see all the "new" posts.
Yes, you don't need to explain any further from your POV. I'm simply
explaining problems that may arise and annoy another user. One way of
doing this is to make it manual. This way anyone not interested in this
facility will not see any orange folders while using TB!. :)
> If you really *hate* this auto change (why not), and want a manual
> toggle, for me I *don't* want to hand work and waste time with *each*
> non-urgent posts. So, I can live with a manual toggle which changes
> *all* the "new" posts to "seen" with only *one* mouse click. Could
> you?
Sure. You read what you wish to read and then use the keyboard shortcut
that labels all unread messages 'seen'. You then move on. No need to hit
the shortcut for each message. Do you always have non-urgent messages in
each folder?
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-=Ali=-
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