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Flagging email/emails
Posted by Innovation to Settings, 10 Apr 09 at 20:05
Flagging emails in different colours is useful if you have an important email or emails so you can Flagg them in different colours. So let’s say you have twenty emails and you have to reply to a few of them within the next 3 to 5 working days you can Flagg them in different colours to suit you as first priority. It should give you the option to add a text on the flag so if you have to reply to John Doe you can flag his email and put your colour to suit you and a text saying (I have to reply by the 29/12/09) so as soon as you drag your mouse courser on the flag the text you typed in will pop up.
No Duplicates
I came here for the first time looking to add this very same suggestion. I think it is very useful and to me an extremely important feature. I would also like to see a notification in the left side folder list showing that flags are contained within what folders. Just like unread messages show up in parentheses.
Ability to sort the emails in addition to labeling/flagging them as described by Innovation would be fabulous!
By sorting, I mean, the ability to sort by label/flag, sender, receiver, date, etc (much like I can within MS Outlook).
RE: Flagging emails with different color-coded icons is an absolutely terrific idea!
Perhaps of some interest is that when I had an account with Mail2World for a brief time, they did have this very helpful feature. It was a tiny, round circle placed on each email line, on the left-hand side of the email, and you could choose the color red, green, blue, or yellow (changing the colors anytime you wanted, of course, and with the option of not color-coding at all by simply leaving the circle uncolored). When you wanted to change the color, you simply clicked on the circle, a tiny bar of the color-coded circles would pop up beside it and you could select a different one.
I hope GMX will decide to implement this idea!
RE: The addition of being allowed to add text on the flag saying something like "I have to reply by 29/12/09" and have that text pop up when you drag your mouse cursor over the text "sounds" nice, but in my opinion, this would probably be a real luxury feature and I would hope that these two suggestions would be considered as two different requests by GMX. I personally would hope that GMX could begin with simply adding the color-coded option.
SUGGESTION: This is only a suggestion, but perhaps it might help with trying to keep track of priority email "due dates". It is only an "example" and a rather detailed example (sorry!):
1. Create a folder called "Email Due Dates" or "Priority Emails"
.....(a) Create a "sub-folder" called "December 2009"
.........(1) Then you could create sub-folders underneath the above sub-folder with specific dates labeled on them, such as "11-11-09", "29-12-09" (etc.)
2. Compose a "Draft" document:
.....(a) Create a note regarding the 29-12-09 needed reply due date (save draft)..."OR"...copy parts or all of the original email to place in this newly created document (save draft).
.....(b) Send the draft file to the "Email Due Dates" folder.
3. (Optional) If you wish to keep that important folder within viewing site easier and above all the other folders, then type something like "1 - Email Due Dates" so that this folder will always stay on top whenever you sort your folders.
The folders would look like this:
1 - Email Due Dates
..........November 2009
...............11-11-09
...............23-11-09
..........December 2009
...............07-12-09
...............29-12-09
Again...this is just an idea, but for the users who read this posting, perhaps somone will find it useful (???).
to be able to group tasks , to be able to see all the blue for example would be extremely helpful, and also being able to action the flags, such as "yet to be addressed" , "in progress" "flag/task completed
Yes, a simple red flag next to an email is a good idea. It also allows you to search back and find something important in your Inbox or Sent Items.
That would be awesome!
Outlook 2010 supports Flagging (for follow up) and Categorizing > both are great and should be implemented as separate function in GMX.
Duplicate ideas like this are already suggested (check links below), but these (together with origanal post) actually combine flagging and categorizing as one function. But I would prefer them as separate function.
Flagging (for follow up):
With flag for follow up you select a time path (today, tomorrow, this week, next week, no date, custom) in which you want to act on that certain email. When flagging an e-mail, outlook2010 ads a certain colored flag to it but also makes it a task with a due date. A list of your flagged mails is also given. Should be possible in GMX webmail as well, and if possible also synchronized with outlook or other desktop mail clients.
Categorize:
In outlook you can also categorize your e-mail by applying a category name and specified color to them. Very useful function to "order" your mail in a certain folder. Should be possible in GMX webmail as well, and if possible also synchronized with outlook or other desktop mail clients.
See also:
http://www.gmx.com/brainstorm.html?bp=YWN0aW9uPWlkZWEmbnVtYmVyPTE0OTc
http://www.gmx.com/brainstorm.html?bp=YWN0aW9uPWlkZWEmbnVtYmVyPTM4Mw
http://www.gmx.com/brainstorm.html?bp=YWN0aW9uPWlkZWEmbnVtYmVyPTI5OQ
BTW this feature recently made it to hotmail, and they don't even have a user forum like this.
Too slow, GMX. Too slow...