Collections use cases

• To collect new material in one place
• Inbox
• Dashboard view (Processing bin)

• To keep track of conversations
• Email threads
• Invitation threads (notifications and email)
• [.4] Thrasks

• To put together an explicit list of items
• Task list: Grocery list
• Project = Vacation to Hawaii
• Calendars
• ie. [.4] My calendars: Home and Work
• ie. Other people's calendars: Spouse, family, working group, administrative assistant
• ie. Organizational calendars: Company, soccer team, performance series
• ie. FYI calendars: Holidays

• To facilitate searching
• Prefiltered set:
• ie. Mitch's "important email" archive
• ie. Calendars (see examples from above)
• ie. Project = Vacation to Hawaii
• ie. Auto-generated contact group: "Most frequently used contacts"
• ie. Contact group based on a "general category" such as "Work" or "Paris" which is unlikely to be used as an alias.
• ie. All notes about "Things to do in Napa"
• Ephemeral collections: Rule result set
• ie. Common searches: Who, timeframe, subject, status, project, category, text

• To create shortcut aliases
• Contacts
• ie. [.4] Groups based on organization: all@mycompany.com
• ie. [.4] Groups based on activity groups (ie.
• ie. Auto-generated: most frequently used contacts
• ie. All items associated with a contact

• To have a comprehensive archive of items related to a particular topic for future reference
• Mailing list
• [.4] Projects

• For quick associations
• Conversation threads
• Ephemeral "On the way home" task lists
• Ephemeral "For an event" list

-- MimiYin - 29 Jul 2004