One of the things I miss from Mail is the ability to label messages
with a color, so I can easily browse my mail for different kinds of
messages that I've tagged with filters.
I was thinking about that, and I thought about the fact that in that
sentence I just used the words label, color and tagged. Those are
really different concepts (well, perhaps labels and tags are the same),
but they all combine to mean make it easy to identify types of
messages.
When I started this message, I was thinking of requesting the addition
of the ability to color messages, but now I'm thinking that perhaps what
I'd rather have is the ability to associate visual attributes with
MailMate's existing tags. If I could specify that a tag has a color
and/or icon associated with it, we could use the existing capabilities
to visually identify items. Flagged messages already implicitly do
this. But I like the idea of being able to have arbitrary icons and
colors.
Less clear is what to do when there is more than one tag. You could
always prioritize them by the order of tags in the attributes panel. But
it might be nice to combine them in some way. Colors could literally be
combined, but I don't know if that would really work. Icons could show
one in the column, and more in the header?
A little stream-of-consciousness there, sorry. But I thought I'd bring
it up to see what people thought.
Back to work.___
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