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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

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