Comments on: The Flex Office Suite is (almost) Complete http://sebastien-arbogast.com/2008/02/06/the-flex-office-suite-is-almost-complete/ Solving Software Problems since 2010 Thu, 17 May 2012 15:07:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sébastien http://sebastien-arbogast.com/2008/02/06/the-flex-office-suite-is-almost-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Sébastien Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:27:19 +0000 http://sebastien-arbogast.com/the-flex-office-suite-is-almost-complete/#comment-69 Oh my! I just added to the list.That's just great! Oh my! I just added to the list.That’s just great!

]]> By: Mike Potter http://sebastien-arbogast.com/2008/02/06/the-flex-office-suite-is-almost-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Mike Potter Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:09:39 +0000 http://sebastien-arbogast.com/the-flex-office-suite-is-almost-complete/#comment-68 http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php is the calendar part you were looking for. :) Mike http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php is the calendar part you were looking for. :)

Mike

]]> By: Sébastien http://sebastien-arbogast.com/2008/02/06/the-flex-office-suite-is-almost-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Sébastien Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:28:39 +0000 http://sebastien-arbogast.com/the-flex-office-suite-is-almost-complete/#comment-67 I just received an email with a feedback for this post, and I thought it could be interesting to post it here: <quote> I am working on an IMAP client (refer to <a href="http://sandman.riaforge.org/" rel="nofollow">website link</a>, still need to put in another 100-200+ hours to get anywhere significant). Will I ever complete it? maybe… if not, the license is deliberately loose enough for someone else to pick it up. I don\’t know how an email client can be more \’creative\’ (according to your post)… but I am curious to know what that means. Clayton </quote> Well that's what I mean by creativity. First, we don't know how we could be creative, then we come up with a feature or a way to do things that we wonder why we didn't think of it sooner. GMail was creative by choosing the thread view as the default one, and with its organization by tags rather than folders. Now I really think that their contact management sucks, as well as filter creation. Another thing, have you ever noticed how it can be easy to forget to attach the file you wanted to send, or forget some recipients. Sometimes you even send an email without a subject because you're too lazy to think of one. Why so? Well, I think that when we want to send a mail, we're interested in the content of the message first. And yet recipients, subject and attachment come first and force us to put aside what we had in mind. So we write the message content, and then we come back to other fields and forget half of it. All of that because the order display of fields is the same as the order of fields in the protocol. Well, a good way to be creative would be to put the message body first and reverse all the fields. Because it's far easier to come up with a subject once you have written the mail, and you see the attachment field right before the "Send" button. Last idea about creative mail: how about integrating the webmail with IM protocols, for people who want to chat and only have access to a webmail. Something with a quick send button. And I'm certain there are plenty of other creative ideas out there. So shoot... I just received an email with a feedback for this post, and I thought it could be interesting to post it here:

<quote>
I am working on an IMAP client (refer to website link, still need to put in
another 100-200+ hours to get anywhere significant). Will I ever complete it?
maybe… if not, the license is deliberately loose enough for someone else to
pick it up.

I don\’t know how an email client can be more \’creative\’ (according to
your post)… but I am curious to know what that means.

Clayton
</quote>

Well that’s what I mean by creativity. First, we don’t know how we could be creative, then we come up with a feature or a way to do things that we wonder why we didn’t think of it sooner.

GMail was creative by choosing the thread view as the default one, and with its organization by tags rather than folders. Now I really think that their contact management sucks, as well as filter creation.

Another thing, have you ever noticed how it can be easy to forget to attach the file you wanted to send, or forget some recipients. Sometimes you even send an email without a subject because you’re too lazy to think of one. Why so? Well, I think that when we want to send a mail, we’re interested in the content of the message first. And yet recipients, subject and attachment come first and force us to put aside what we had in mind. So we write the message content, and then we come back to other fields and forget half of it. All of that because the order display of fields is the same as the order of fields in the protocol. Well, a good way to be creative would be to put the message body first and reverse all the fields. Because it’s far easier to come up with a subject once you have written the mail, and you see the attachment field right before the “Send” button.

Last idea about creative mail: how about integrating the webmail with IM protocols, for people who want to chat and only have access to a webmail. Something with a quick send button.

And I’m certain there are plenty of other creative ideas out there. So shoot…

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