I mean, most people don’t even know when to use CC (appropriately). I prefer not to rely on other people to tell me how important a message may or may not be to me. And what happens if there’s a follow-up from someone in a different addressing range? Same problem.

I’d rather spend a couple of minutes a day reading emails that are of no importance to me and be sure I can discard them then to rely on people to select the correct option.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree there’s a lot of ways interoffice communications can be made to work better, but where just Outlook is concerned, tghere’s other annoyances I’d rather see fixed, like the lack of scroll-mouse support in the address book.

The problem with designated fields (other than creating a toolbar above the actual edit field that just doesn’t stop, to accomodate all the extra “to” fields” – reminds me of some of those screenshots of people’s browsers wthat are inundated with all sorts of malwarebars) is that it makes it too easy for people to file without thinking. It’s not that hard to create designated folders in one’s inbox (which I have here, at home, for the 4 different email addresses I use plus all the one-off email addresses for subscriptions and verifications, as well as at work, where I have only one inbox).

I read what I need to read, and file it away appropriately in the correct folder. Most folders simply bare the name of the various senders (at work), abut there’s a couple of folders that require further action. “Follow-up”, “Verify”, “Completed”. Done.

:-)

Just yesterday during a run I noticed a lot of litter in the local park and was going to go clean it up before the rain came and washed that plan away. The adopt-a-hydrant app would be easily modified to adopt-a-park. Clean the litter and maybe even mow the lawn. I know it would feel really cool to be responsible for maintaining a park and having a direct impact on the enjoyment of people in your community.