Electronic interaction
Oct. 9th, 2006 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackCurrently, 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.
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Date: 2006-10-09 11:19 pm (UTC)- i spin on LJ threads looking for replies to comments
- notes saying "I don't have anything to say to this one" would therefore possibly be useful
- I'd probably spin anyway in case someone else replied
- i could turn on email notifications instead
- i probably wouldn't then anxiously watch my email for replies, more than I anxiously watch my email anyway
e-mails
- sometimes you email someone hoping for some reply; it's then useful to know that they've received it and are going to reply when they have something to say, but it's probably just paranoia, they always have
- sometimes you email someone hoping they'll do something; it's then useful to know that they have acted on your email, and they don't always bother to let you know
- sometimes you email someone and don't know if they'll reply, a note saying "I have nothing to say" might be useful then. I get something like this on freecycle: if you email to ask about something and aren't fast enough to get it but the other person isn't sufficiently overwhelmed to bother posting a Taken: notice, you're just left re-checking email in case they're taking a long time to reply to you.
I don't see how it's implementable though. i have an inbox, and I move things out of inbox when I've acted on them as much as I'm going to, so emailing people saying "you're not in mair's inbox any more" might help, but for lots of the mails it wouldn't, so I'd need to know whom to email like that. you want to be able to /request/ it?
I don't see how it's implementable though.
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