[Alpine-info] feature request: new command "maybe"
John A. Kunze
jak at ucop.edu
Thu Oct 6 11:52:01 PDT 2011
I'd love to have a keystroke to invoke a command that does the following.
Not sure what to call it -- for now it's the "maybe" command. It would
1. Mark a message with a new flag: "maybe"
2. Advance to the next message, similar in this regard to "delete"
3. Upon exiting, those messages are saved in a "maybe" folder
What I find is that there's a small amount of my constantly overflowing
inbox that (a) I know I need to save and (b) I know I can delete now.
But the vast majority of my inbox is stuff that I _might_ need, and that
I'd like to be able to dig out of one big bucket (not lots of little
folders managed by lots of rules) on an as-needed basis. An important
property of this "maybe" bucket is that I can chop off stuff older than
a couple years without looking anything but the timestamp.
This would address a very important use case for me, which is that I
currently end up saving huge amounts of mail that is a mixture of
important things I knew I wanted to save and a very large amount of
things that turned out to be very unimportant, but I didn't know that
at the time of saving.
What I do know at the time of saving/flagging is whether thing is (a)
important, (b) trash, or (c) maybe. Because it's a common use case for
me (anyone else?), it would be great to have single keystroke for it.
-John
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