Suggestion for Email: X-Thread-ID
I was just thinking, as I read over my twitter stream, that one of the best features for Gmail is indeed the threading capabilities. To have all of your messages that pertain to a certain subject/discussion listed as a thread with individual messages; allows for much better message management, and makes it much easier to find what you’re looking for.
But one way to make this even easier, would be an introduction of a new header into emails:
X-Thread-ID
This would be the MD5 of the subject and timestamp, or something along those lines to generate an ID that would be very or completely unlikely to accidentally be recreated.
This would make it super easy for mail clients and servers alike to keep track of threads.
It’s ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Although my attempt did unfortunately fail.
What I was trying to do, you see, was Dual Boot my laptop into windows 7 on an external hard drive via USB. I didn't know where the power adapter for the HDD enclosure board was; so I had to plug the hard drive and the HDD enclosure into the PSU of the crappy dell computer.
Smart Vista Clock
Smart Clock on Windows Vista. Let's me know that DST is ending soon, that way the sudden change in time won't surprise me. Nice little feature; quite possibly useful.
Idea: Syndicated Feed Access Protocol (SFAP)
The idea is to take your common every-day feed readers that pull RSS, ATOM, OPML or whatever else from the internet, and combine their information. To this, we come up with a feature list:
- Ability to Synchronize Read status of News Items
- Ability to Synchronize “Star” (or “Important”) status of News Items
- Ability to Synchronize Folders for News Items
- Ability to add/remove/edit a Feed Subscription (including setting an alias for the feed)
- Ability to Synchronize “Tags”
This would allow us to do with RSS feeds what we do with email when we use IMAP.
Things like Google’s “Share” feature could be simplified as a tag “special:share”.
What do you think?
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