1460398 - (feature request) highlighting of email body content (whole new layer in Message Reader UI ?)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[AK]

# feature request
# highlighting of received mails

Very often I read emails, but do not immediately answer them, but use "stars", "tags", or simply "mark as unread".

My idea would greatly improve my workflow:

I want to use a "highlighter", to color a single word or sentence in an email (in my inbox) in e.g. yellow. Think along the lines of PDF highlighting.

Then I could read, and highlight many emails now - and then when I find the time and urge to answer later ... will immediately know the most important pieces. 

Also, a search across all emails could subselect only the highlighted words.

I do not want to change the mail itself, so the highlighter needs to act on a separate layer on top. There are probably tons of additional cool features possible, when you put one whole layer on top of the Message Reader UI - and in that layer then create such a "highlighter".


I do not understand the inner architecture of Thunderbird, so if you do, perhaps answer, whether this could simply be done with an "add-on", or whether it needs deeper changes in the client software.

Thoughts? Opinions? Further ideas?


Thanks a lot.

P.S.: And it is time for praise too. Thunderbird might simply be the most useful program on our machines ( and I have hundreds of apps). I love TB. There is always room for improvement - but it is an amazing tool already. Kudos!

Sunny greetings
Andreas

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I don't know of any add-on that does this.
It would require something like bug 288514.

Comment 2

[AK]

Wow. You are linking back to a 13 years old thread. Cool. Thanks!