Lifehacker has posted a list of email innovations they would like to see become commonplace in email applications. Between the items listed and wishes in the comments of the post, it looks like ClearContext has pretty much got Outlook users covered. Let’s take a closer look.
From the post:
Snooze This Message
Sometimes you just don’t need to deal with an email message this very second, but you don’t want it cluttering up your inbox or lost in a folder somewhere. Adding a "Snooze button" to your inbox could solve the problem: You hit "Snooze" on a message and it disappears from view—until a day later, when it reappears again, unread and in your inbox, ready for processing.
ClearContext’s Defer feature pulls a message out of the Inbox until you have time to deal with it.
Faceted Search/Related Messages
Your email inbox and sent mail archive is basically a huge personal database of communication over time, and smart search can help you slice and dice it by topic and sender.
ClearContext Pro and Personal have been showing message threads grouped together in the Inbox since v1 of the product. In addition, the ClearContext RelatedView displays all messages, tasks and appointments in the current conversation as an integrated window within each item, giving a clear context for the current message you are working with.
From the post’s comments:
Notify me if no reply in X days.
Am I the only one who sees a need for this? How many times have you sent an e-mail that requires a reply and the jerk…I mean colleague…at the other end ignores it? Better yet if you could send an automated nag after a given period of time.
Use ClearContext Pro’s follow-up feature to notify you if you don’t receive a timely reply from an important email.
MUTE THREAD.
I get so much traffic at work from threads that I don’t need to see. When it first becomes irrelevant, I would like to be able to click a button and mute the thread, whereby all further messages in that thread go straight to a folder without cluttering my inbox.
Yep, got that too. Unsubscribe – available in both Pro and Personal.
ClearContext also adds message prioritization, automatic filing, and advanced attachment viewing and management. What else would you like to see? Reply to All protection? Attachment alerts? Send your ideas to info at clearcontext dot com.
would like to see a feature enabling the user to color outlook folders and subfolders.
Posted by yaronr on August 21st, 2008.