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Mail contributor week brainstorming ideas
- ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ More discoverable multi-select and bulk operations
- ✔️✔️✔️✔️ Very slow and flaky syncing
- ✔️✔️✔️ Translate email to my language
- ✔️✔️✔️ Enable routing of certain types of emails emails directly to a folder (like work reports). GUI for sieve filters https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/44
- ✔️✔️✔️ Emails that were moved to a folder are still displayed in the inbox. Deleted emails should stay deleted. -> Improve caching system. Several people stopped using mail because of this. https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/9168
- ✔️✔️ Create tasks in deck from emails https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/5900
- ✔️✔️ Enable markdown by default
- ✔️ Don’t loose formatting upon copy paste (e.g. notes to mail)
- ✔️ Quick filters missing close to the search bar (unread, favourites)
- ✔️ Improve counters calculations and placements 0(230)
- ✔️ Collapse mailboxes in the sidebar
- ✔️ Auto delete spam
- ✔️ Preloading email body for faster viewing
- There’s no unread marker in threads
- Shared mailbox or folders
- Setting mail reminders
- Preview upon hovering attachments
- Small mail editor bottom right that doesn’t block the interface
- Real search (not only subject and people)
- Tags in navigation
- Collapse previous messages in replies
- Alert to respond to important emails
- Auto mark emails in folders as read
- Auto add flights and hotel bookings to calendar (it’s there but not visible enough)
- New message composer fullscreen
- Setting priorities for mail from important people
- relocate action buttons (move to the bottom / sticky)
- Associate folders with mailing lists
- Calendar events embedding
- Spam filter that works
- Restrict closing tab while undo send is available
- Mail action menu is not intuitive, difficult to scan, condense action menu in the same menu
- Improve empty content when opening mail app
- Recipients are missing in each email in threads
- Delete email option inline in the wide view
FYI @ChristophWurst @jancborchardt @nimishavijay
@ChristophWurst could you please work with your team to link existing issues to each item and or create new ones if you think it's needed?
- should have a higher priority in my opinion. The way threads are handled, right now, makes by far more problems than it solves. As I understood, this is not an easy problem to solve. Until then, it would be much better to be able to disable threads.. or at least to make the filter for unread messages work.
One other thing that the teachers in our school are often complaining about, is that forwarded messages don't contain images. This is pretty bad for newsletters, for example. This doesn't seem to be a priority at all.
I appreciate the feedback @LostinSpacetime! Finding the right priority is tricky as everyone has different needs. The result above are based on a group of randomly selected people that use Nextcloud daily. Perhaps @marcoambrosini can add some context to the ticket description for the people who did not participate.
More discoverable multi-select and bulk operations
@marcoambrosini @nimishavijay do you have ideas or suggestions for a more discoverable UI? Should we show the checkboxes all the time?
@marcoambrosini 1: #10231 2: #8545 #10199 #10179 #10039 3: No existing issues (related to #10062) 4: (Already linked to issue above) 5: (Already linked to issue above) 6: (Already linked to issue above) 7: No existing issues (related to #9858) 8: Perhaps fixed in #9608 (and related to #9858) 9: #9958 #5489 10: #8622 11: #9300 12: #9217 13: #7770 ^ These were the only ones that had the mysterious ✔️ next to them so I didn't bother with the others.
As a daily user of Mail myself, I look forward to the improvements! Also, if i may be so bold to say that more dogfooding of the Mail app may reveal the day to day annoyances better than asking for a wishlist from users.
The areas that still prevent us from adopting this over SnappyMail:
- Search... it never returns, just times out trying to retrieve any data (Can't load inbox)
- Sieve settings do not have a user friendly setup.
- The ability to respond to inline calendar requests from outside email such as Google calendar requests from external users.
Hello,
Maybe do some user testing during contributor week? Find a volunteer or maybe NC employee, let them work with Mail, screengrab the whole work day? I would be up for it but would have to check internally beforehand.
Issues
I would be very happy if you can consider one of these issues for the contributer week:
- One of the things that I miss the most is a search that finds what I want. Example:I just entered "keyword" in the search bar, open advanced search, click unread - it does not show me the email (that I know exists) that is unread and has "keyword" in both the sender adress and in the subject.
- this bugs me every week when I copy something from Text to Mail https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/9858
- this is pretty important usability IMO https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/9215
- also mailto: links are shown as suspicious links, should not be the case: "href: mailto:[email protected] : link text [email protected] "This is on cloud.nextcloud.com.
Thank you for working on this! 🚀
Closing as resolved. The top five items have been delivered. New brainstorming and rating will be done in the future. Thank you.