What is the difference as far as the user is concerned between setting up filters and folders in Mail and having Smart Folders?
Won't the end result be the same from an end users point of view? The difference is kind of academic: the emails are not really copied into the Smart Folder as they might be in a traditional filter/folder set up. Who cares? So Smart Folders save me a few KB of harddrive space in duplicated emails.
I can appreciate the technology behind Smart Folder (indexing and so on), I think having system-wide search of email is good, but at the end of the day I don't see how this cool tech will have any real effect on how I read and organize email in Mail.
What I would like to see is the ability to group or cluster emails quickly by sender (or month or whatever). This is the feature I miss most from Outlook. Again, I think Apple could borrow the interface for this from iTunes. Think of the Miller Column (or Browse) interface in iTunes, but instead of Genre>Artist>Album you would have Account>Sender>Month (or something). Or they could use those little arrow link buttons from the iTunes Music Store that allow you to filter by artist or ablum with one click.
Am I missing some of the potential of Smart Folders here? Or is Mail not making any great leap forward.
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What is the difference as far as the user is concerned between setting up filters and folders in Mail and having Smart Folders?
Won't the end result be the same from an end users point of view? The difference is kind of academic: the emails are not really copied into the Smart Folder as they might be in a traditional filter/folder set up. Who cares? So Smart Folders save me a few KB of harddrive space in duplicated emails.
I can appreciate the technology behind Smart Folder (indexing and so on), I think having system-wide search of email is good, but at the end of the day I don't see how this cool tech will have any real effect on how I read and organize email in Mail.
What I would like to see is the ability to group or cluster emails quickly by sender (or month or whatever). This is the feature I miss most from Outlook. Again, I think Apple could borrow the interface for this from iTunes. Think of the Miller Column (or Browse) interface in iTunes, but instead of Genre>Artist>Album you would have Account>Sender>Month (or something). Or they could use those little arrow link buttons from the iTunes Music Store that allow you to filter by artist or ablum with one click.
Am I missing some of the potential of Smart Folders here? Or is Mail not making any great leap forward.