An Idea for a PP Viewing Method

[Chuck7]

Hello Everyone!

I Just Started Using this Method, so I’m not yet sure if it has any drawback. So Far, it’s been working Great, so I thought it may be helpful to somebody else . . .

I like to keep my POP Peeper Inbox CLEARED, And Yet keep IMPORTANT Recent Emails Instantly Viewable in my Inbox –– so I am TESTING the Following Method:

• The Option “Hide Read Messages” is ticked (Ctrl-H);
• I keep an email with the subject “.” in my Inbox;
• When there is ALSO an IMPORTANT READ Email(s), I mark the “.” email UNread (INS) so it, Alone, Displays;
• When NO Important Emails Exist, the “.” email is marked Read (so mailbox is totally blank);
• To Display/Undisplay Important Read Email, just press CTRL-H.

Chuck

[Jeff]

Hey Chuck, I *think* I get what you're doing here, and I like hearing these kinds of ideas from people because it let's me know how people are using PP and what I can do to move it in the right direction.

My problem is that I want to be organized, but I find it very difficult. I used to keep a very clean inbox, but somewhere along the way I started keeping all my messages listed and rarely move messages around (my inboxes are automatically "managed" -- the system moves any messages beyond 2000 into an archive folder). More problematic is that I have tons of unread messages -- mostly newsletters that I think, "I may read that later" and then never do. The problem with this system I have is that I also keep messages that I need to reply to in the unread state, to remind me, but that's not a good reminder when I have so many unread messages.

What I would *like* to do, and I think I mentioned this semi-recently somewhere -- is have an "important" indicator for messages. This would essentially be an extension of the "user flags." So you mark a message as "important" (and this would be easily accessible, e.g. press 'i' on the keyboard) and a couple of things happen:
1) The message gets a special user flag
2) There would be a new tab available on the message list (e.g. inbox, outbox, draft, important) and any messages marked as important show in the "important" list. Thus making them very easy to access.

Let me know what you think of that.

[YourKoolPal]

I know this is an old post, but did you make any progress with this?

Hey Chuck, I *think* I get what you're doing here, and I like hearing these kinds of ideas from people because it let's me know how people are using PP and what I can do to move it in the right direction.

My problem is that I want to be organized, but I find it very difficult. I used to keep a very clean inbox, but somewhere along the way I started keeping all my messages listed and rarely move messages around (my inboxes are automatically "managed" -- the system moves any messages beyond 2000 into an archive folder). More problematic is that I have tons of unread messages -- mostly newsletters that I think, "I may read that later" and then never do. The problem with this system I have is that I also keep messages that I need to reply to in the unread state, to remind me, but that's not a good reminder when I have so many unread messages.

What I would *like* to do, and I think I mentioned this semi-recently somewhere -- is have an "important" indicator for messages. This would essentially be an extension of the "user flags." So you mark a message as "important" (and this would be easily accessible, e.g. press 'i' on the keyboard) and a couple of things happen:
1) The message gets a special user flag
2) There would be a new tab available on the message list (e.g. inbox, outbox, draft, important) and any messages marked as important show in the "important" list. Thus making them very easy to access.

Let me know what you think of that.

[Jeff]

No development has started on this particular feature, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not interesting... I like the idea of this personally, but it should be something that has wide appeal for it to be considered. So I take it that you would be interested in it? Do you have any of your own suggestions for it?

[YourKoolPal]

@Jeff Its me again!

I think I did not get any notification email about your last message which is I would not have replied. (I may have forgotten to select - Notify me when a reply is posted)

Plus, life happened and this dropped from the priority list for me.

Reviving it again.

Can you explore some method to assign numbers to user flags?

What I mean is 0 = *None
1 to 9 get assigned to different user flags - built in flags as well as custom user flags -> https://www.esumsoft.com/pop-peeper/ref ... #userflags

Show these in different tabs on top - next to Inbox, Outbox, Draft, Search

I am on Windows 10 and POP Peeper Pro v5.5.3

Thanks

[Jeff]

I didn't remember any of that... and then I noticed it was 8 years ago

The good news is that the "important" flag did eventually make it into POP Peeper; with a default shortcut of Ctrl+I. But the idea of a "new tab" was completely forgotten. You can sort by the "user flag" column and important flags will appear at the top. But your suggestion seems to bring the concept back.

Even just for "important", sorting by a different column is functional, but I have to admit, not very practical. I never do that myself and will often just scroll down a few pages to find the most recent "important" messages (it helps that they're highlighted; and, fyi, you can highlight other flags with custom colors, too; this feature will be much more accessible in v6).

And there's another method which I also don't use, search for "flag: important" (or the name of whatever flag; as documented).

For better or for worse, when I start thinking about ideas, I can't help but thinking how much better they could be. So, instead of the tabs only representing a userflag, the tabs could be more flexible by using custom-defined filters -- userflag, new/unread/read status, junk evaluation, search terms, replied-to status, etc.

We'll see.