<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryan Copeland</b> <<a href="mailto:bcopeld@gmail.com">bcopeld@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<RESENDING><span class="gmail_quote"><br></span>At the risk of getting flamed as a newbie here, just thought I'd contribute my first suggestion for OpenMoko text/e-mail messaging.<br><br>I've always desired a much more intuitive interface for accessing my messages than what is currently provided by the standard list scheme. Namely, I want to know which groups and which people are sending me the most e-mail/SMS messages, and be able to assign priorities as I often don't have time to answer all of my mail. Then, there is Spam & Junk Mail. Some of it I like to read, I have my favorites like College Humor, discount offers, contests and giveaways.
<br><br>What does everyone think of building upon the FOAF specs for a totally visual representation. Picture the "<a href="http://www.theyrule.net/2004/tr2.php" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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http://www.theyrule.net/2004/tr2.php</a>> as seen in the attachment. You only need to add numbers to each person designating the number of unread emails in your inbox. Actually, you could display any number by switching one setting ("View by Read", "View by Unread", or "View by Importance"). Also, this could get people into using the "Importance settings" that so often get neglected in the flat lists of Microsoft Outlook and other similar mail apps.
<br><br>Anyway, that's just a thought... but again, screen size may be an issue as the network or I should say "Address Book" grows to an unmanageable numbers. But that could potentially be countered by placing people in groups (like by business, school, etc...)
<br><span class="sg"><span><br>Bryan Copeland</span></span></blockquote></div><br>Howdy,<br>I'm sorry if this sounds stupid, but I'm completely confused by what you are trying to say. I think what you are trying to say is that you want a picture for an "inbox" that shows the people and the number of messages from them? Am I getting the general gist right here? That sounds like a fine idea for email, but I'm not sure how that works for text messaging.
<br><br>I can't vouch for anyone else else, but I have 4 basic groups of people in my address book: Work, Family, Friends, Companies. The only group I text message with at all, is my Friends. So for me, having a "group" view wouldn't do me much good, because all the messages are from the same group. Also at the same time, I don't have that many text messages that I can't read them all. I suppose having an "importance" filter isn't a half bad idea, for those that do get lots of text messages.
<br><br>So maybe if you explain your concept a little better from your personal usage of text messaging, and how you see this "Graphical representation" helping you use text messages more intuitively/efficiently? For example your attached picture (which I might add is a bit large, maybe a PNG/JPG/GIF next time?) shows links to Merrill Lynch and AT&T Wireless. Do you regularly communicate with these groups (via Text messaging)? Maybe you might consider throwing something together in paint/gimp/photoshop that is based on your personal experiences? That way you can better explain it.
<br><br>-Jon<br><br>PS. I'm not trying to harsh your work here or anything, or "flame" you for being a newbie (alot of us are newbies - heck I've only been writing on this list for 3 days). Everyones suggestions are good. You've suggested a concept that I'd never even considered, I'm simply just trying to understand your usage of it.
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