Are most definitely available in the Notes mail template.
Again, FWIW.
They're also available in the Welcome page -- if you're in 6.5 and using the Workplace-style Welcome page, there's a link that says "open threads" that shows you the thread for that message.
Just FWIW, there is an app that ships with current versions of Notes (I believe it started with Notes 6) that actually *does* do some of the work for you in terms of sorting e-mail. It's called Swiftfile.
When you open a message, it has a few suggested folders that it thinks the message might belong in, based on the sender, subject, and text of the message. It actually works fairly well from my personal use.
Now, it seems like it might be possible to do this sorting before things go into the inbox, especially now that you can see unread messages in folders.
Additionally, bear in mind that Notes is made to be collaborative -- if people would use it "correctly." In a perfect world, about 1/2 of the things that currently get e-mailed would live in discussion databases, quickplaces, team workspaces, etc, rather than being e-mailed. That big attachment that you need to have everyone comment on? No need to mail it, if you're using a discussion db or quickplace for your team. Post it there, and *maybe* send a link around, unless team members are using a subscription on their Notes client welcome page, which would tell them about it. For example.
But the problem is that many folks don't "get it" and understand what's possible with Notes, and so they don't use the features that are available to them.
Now, one of the things that I feel obliged to point out, not just in response to this part of the thread, but to folks who complain about e-mail in general, is that part of that is not using the client capabilities to their fullest potential. Both Notes and Outlook (and other clients) have rules and folders. Use rules to file messages with certain topics, cc'd rather than sent directly to you, or from certain users so that you can deal with them more effectively and on your own time.
As I wrote in a recent editorial (http://e-promag.com/eparchive//index.cfm?fuseacti on=viewarticle&ContentID=3546 -- sorry, free registration required), we could train ourselves to make those more effective, too -- use certain keywords in subject lines, such as "information only" or "action required" -- if you got an e-mail that was sent directly to you, not cc'd and had an action required subject line, it would go directly in the inbox, but if was cc'd to you, it would go into a subfolder, or have a different color highlighting or something like that... Then you could deal with it more effectively when you were ready to do so.
Anyway, this was just a long-winded way of saying that there are some things (both pieces of technology and ways of using the existing technology) available that can make some of the e-mail burden less onerous.
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Are most definitely available in the Notes mail template.
Again, FWIW.
They're also available in the Welcome page -- if you're in 6.5 and using the Workplace-style Welcome page, there's a link that says "open threads" that shows you the thread for that message.
Just FWIW, there is an app that ships with current versions of Notes (I believe it started with Notes 6) that actually *does* do some of the work for you in terms of sorting e-mail. It's called Swiftfile.
i on=viewarticle&ContentID=3546 -- sorry, free registration required), we could train ourselves to make those more effective, too -- use certain keywords in subject lines, such as "information only" or "action required" -- if you got an e-mail that was sent directly to you, not cc'd and had an action required subject line, it would go directly in the inbox, but if was cc'd to you, it would go into a subfolder, or have a different color highlighting or something like that... Then you could deal with it more effectively when you were ready to do so.
When you open a message, it has a few suggested folders that it thinks the message might belong in, based on the sender, subject, and text of the message. It actually works fairly well from my personal use.
Now, it seems like it might be possible to do this sorting before things go into the inbox, especially now that you can see unread messages in folders.
Additionally, bear in mind that Notes is made to be collaborative -- if people would use it "correctly." In a perfect world, about 1/2 of the things that currently get e-mailed would live in discussion databases, quickplaces, team workspaces, etc, rather than being e-mailed. That big attachment that you need to have everyone comment on? No need to mail it, if you're using a discussion db or quickplace for your team. Post it there, and *maybe* send a link around, unless team members are using a subscription on their Notes client welcome page, which would tell them about it. For example.
But the problem is that many folks don't "get it" and understand what's possible with Notes, and so they don't use the features that are available to them.
Now, one of the things that I feel obliged to point out, not just in response to this part of the thread, but to folks who complain about e-mail in general, is that part of that is not using the client capabilities to their fullest potential. Both Notes and Outlook (and other clients) have rules and folders. Use rules to file messages with certain topics, cc'd rather than sent directly to you, or from certain users so that you can deal with them more effectively and on your own time.
As I wrote in a recent editorial (http://e-promag.com/eparchive//index.cfm?fuseact
Anyway, this was just a long-winded way of saying that there are some things (both pieces of technology and ways of using the existing technology) available that can make some of the e-mail burden less onerous.