Pegasus Mail Suggestions
Three aids to help manage the deluge that email has now become

These are great ideas.  In my opinion, features that fundamentally improve and optimize my day-to-day workflow are the ones I am most interested in.  E-Mail is no longer just sending and receiving messages, it is now about "managing" messages and the continuing deluge of information that comes flowing in every day.

New and improved user interfaces are fine and cute, but what I really desire is features that allow me to more productively manage and respond to the deluge.

<P>These are great ideas.  In my opinion, features that fundamentally improve and optimize my day-to-day workflow are the ones I am most interested in.  E-Mail is no longer just sending and receiving messages, it is now about "managing" messages and the continuing deluge of information that comes flowing in every day.</P><P>New and improved user interfaces are fine and cute, but what I <STRONG><EM>really </EM></STRONG>desire is features that allow me to more productively manage and respond to the deluge.</P>

Display annotations in folder view columns (along with From, Subject etc)

Some others have requested this too (I supported one of the posts). The annotations could contain brief notes about what needs to be done about an email sometime, subject keywords or tags, summary of important points or key information in the email etc.

 Add an indexed search engine

The recently added pegasus search engine is okay but it is far too slow to be used as a matter of course.  Colleagues using outlook and other email software with previously indexed searching swear by its importance, it provides instant responses to searches.  It is true that once I started using desktop search on my hard drive it was within days something I could not live without. Copernic desktop search provides a good alternative to google and their site makes available software to add other software to its search engine. I considered this but one would need to understand very well pegasus folder and email structures. And to be honest I would never find the week or two it might take.

 Beef up the email header colouring

This is a facility in pegasus that no other package I know of has, and it sat there unused for the 10-12 years that I have been using pegasus.  Then for some reason I decided to try it.  It is superbly brilliant and useful.  All the messages I MUST deal with are coloured bright red.  Those that should be dealt withi but arent life and death, are light red. Those that have important information in them, a useful reference for the future, are green.  Blue means they contain management records, eg. a receipt, that shouldnt be lost or deleted.  One could systematise this within pegasus so that a user defines the meanings of colours, and give short cut keys to them.  Colours have reminded me of numerous things I might otherwise have forgotten.

 

<P><EM>Display annotations in folder view columns (along with From, Subject etc)</EM></P> <P>Some others have requested this too (I supported one of the posts). The annotations could contain brief notes about what needs to be done about an email sometime, subject keywords or tags, summary of important points or key information in the email etc. </P> <P> <EM>Add an indexed search engine</EM></P> <P>The recently added pegasus search engine is okay but it is far too slow to be used as a matter of course.  Colleagues using outlook and other email software with previously indexed searching swear by its importance, it provides instant responses to searches.  It is true that once I started using desktop search on my hard drive it was within days something I could not live without. Copernic desktop search provides a good alternative to google and their site makes available software to add other software to its search engine. I considered this but one would need to understand very well pegasus folder and email structures. And to be honest I would never find the week or two it might take. </P> <P> <EM>Beef up the email header colouring</EM></P> <P>This is a facility in pegasus that no other package I know of has, and it sat there unused for the 10-12 years that I have been using pegasus.  Then for some reason I decided to try it.  It is superbly brilliant and useful.  All the messages I MUST deal with are coloured bright red.  Those that should be dealt withi but arent life and death, are light red. Those that have important information in them, a useful reference for the future, are green.  Blue means they contain management records, eg. a receipt, that shouldnt be lost or deleted.  One could systematise this within pegasus so that a user defines the meanings of colours, and give short cut keys to them.  Colours have reminded me of numerous things I might otherwise have forgotten. </P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P>

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 Beef up the email header colouring

This is a facility in pegasus that no other package I know of has, and it sat there unused for the 10-12 years that I have been using pegasus.  Then for some reason I decided to try it.  It is superbly brilliant and useful. One could systematise this within pegasus so that a user defines the meanings of colours, and give short cut keys to them.  Colours have reminded me of numerous things I might otherwise have forgotten. 

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While you cannot currently assign a name or category to a colour (which may very well be useful to some people), you can write a filter which runs via a Quick Action shortcut (Messages | Quick copy/move | Define Quick Actions...) and marks a message in a certain colour. Personally I'm happy to simply click the colour selector button!

[quote user="Harry Bruhns"]<P> <EM>Beef up the email header colouring</EM></P> <P>This is a facility in pegasus that no other package I know of has, and it sat there unused for the 10-12 years that I have been using pegasus.  Then for some reason I decided to try it.  It is superbly brilliant and useful. One could systematise this within pegasus so that a user defines the meanings of colours, and give short cut keys to them.  Colours have reminded me of numerous things I might otherwise have forgotten. </P><P>[/quote]</P><P>While you cannot currently assign a name or category to a colour (which may very well be useful to some people), you can write a filter which runs via a Quick Action shortcut (Messages | Quick copy/move | Define Quick Actions...) and marks a message in a certain colour. Personally I'm happy to simply click the colour selector button!</P>
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