January 13, 2005With blogs and flickr and del.icio.us, we use categories or tags to arrange, retrieve, and store chunks of data (blog posts, say, or photos, or links).
But when am I going to be able to do this with email, in a way that is recognized by the recipient and the sender? Say I have a friend, and we email about various things in the course of the day: edits on a piece, or the thing we're going to next weekend, or some bit of gossip, or a troubled friend. And, like everyone else, we're bad with subject lines. Why can't our email application have some tags in a checkbox that I can mark? And I could use it for priority too -- tag things "urgent" or "unimportant" as a sort of modifier. C'mon nerds, build me some Thunderbird/Outlook extension.
