Electronic interaction
Oct. 9th, 2006 11:12 pmCurrently, when lj comments arrive in my mail, they are shunted into a directory with a flag that says "need to read/reply" (in fact, a gmail "star") which is taken off when I've read them, or when I've replied to them if I need to.
Emails that arrive are treated similarly, except the flag is "inbox". (Though if I had many more, I'd need a more complicated system.)
Currently my "todo" list is separate from my email, but for some people they aren't, and emails are tagged with "deal with on [date]".
Would it be useful if, if it was your comment/email, you could see whether I had done that?:
(a) Cool
(b) Ick, you've invented microsoft "read receipts"
(c) Nice idea, but doesn't really help.
(d) Nice idea, but it needs to be clearly optional, I need to be able to move stuff around without sending off notifications to anywhere or anything
(e) Yes, but not email, it only works if you share a project/database/server, and anyway, this only makes sense for specific projects you're working on together, for which you should have some management software, rather than trying to do everyting in email.
Emails that arrive are treated similarly, except the flag is "inbox". (Though if I had many more, I'd need a more complicated system.)
Currently my "todo" list is separate from my email, but for some people they aren't, and emails are tagged with "deal with on [date]".
Would it be useful if, if it was your comment/email, you could see whether I had done that?:
(a) Cool
(b) Ick, you've invented microsoft "read receipts"
(c) Nice idea, but doesn't really help.
(d) Nice idea, but it needs to be clearly optional, I need to be able to move stuff around without sending off notifications to anywhere or anything
(e) Yes, but not email, it only works if you share a project/database/server, and anyway, this only makes sense for specific projects you're working on together, for which you should have some management software, rather than trying to do everyting in email.