Comments on: Email awareness http://sweetspot.dolcelab.org/archives/16 The idea blog of the dolcelab Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:59:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: tophe http://sweetspot.dolcelab.org/archives/16#comment-7 tophe Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:27:49 +0000 http://sweetspot.dolcelab.org/archives/16#comment-7 LOL. I should say 'back to work! that 1:30 is on the clock!' But of course learning and discussion is part of the work :-) The last thing I want is for the emails to take longer to process. But other than the tracking number thing, it wouldn't necessarily intrude on the email reading, indeed it might speed it up. Wacky idea: what if the font size of the email header grew or shrank in the inbox headers window depending on message body length, and it became 'hotter' (maybe more red? more boldface?) as the time spent composing went up? then it would be easy at a glance what people had spent time and energy on. I hate the column that tells you in your inbox how many bytes the message is. That USED to be useful, when messages were all text. Now that html allows arbitrary inflation of the message without adding any more body text, the 'bytes' column is basically only useful to tell how big peoples attachments to you are. This response just cost 3:37 :-) LOL. I should say ‘back to work! that 1:30 is on the clock!’ But of course learning and discussion is part of the work :-)

The last thing I want is for the emails to take longer to process. But other than the tracking number thing, it wouldn’t necessarily intrude on the email reading, indeed it might speed it up.

Wacky idea: what if the font size of the email header grew or shrank in the inbox headers window depending on message body length, and it became ‘hotter’ (maybe more red? more boldface?) as the time spent composing went up? then it would be easy at a glance what people had spent time and energy on.

I hate the column that tells you in your inbox how many bytes the message is. That USED to be useful, when messages were all text. Now that html allows arbitrary inflation of the message without adding any more body text, the ‘bytes’ column is basically only useful to tell how big peoples attachments to you are.

This response just cost 3:37 :-)

]]> By: Joel Galbraith http://sweetspot.dolcelab.org/archives/16#comment-6 Joel Galbraith Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:45:12 +0000 http://sweetspot.dolcelab.org/archives/16#comment-6 Some interesting ideas Chris. Does the "cost" of such data only increase the cost of the whole emailing system for people--now we not only have the emails to read,but we have to deal with/read/have others see our stats as well. This seems like the end result might defeat the purpose of your efforts--even though the idea has merit. (your post just cost me 1:30 plus the time to go back to what I was doing) -Joel G. Some interesting ideas Chris. Does the “cost” of such data only increase the cost of the whole emailing system for people–now we not only have the emails to read,but we have to deal with/read/have others see our stats as well.
This seems like the end result might defeat the purpose of your efforts–even though the idea has merit.
(your post just cost me 1:30 plus the time to go back to what I was doing)
-Joel G.

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