285864 - Add notes (like post-it) like in Adobe Acrobat, MS office (PowerPoint) or Mail.app

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12306

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

Messages with a note should be marked : maybe with a new colum or a specific
icon, but something that allow sorting them. Allowing the change of the color of
the note is possible enhancement.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Joerg Buchberger]

This is a _very_ much needed feature in my case.

I receive lots of emails being automated build-reports, manual bug-reports from
testers and customers, questions/answers and/or return-questions on technical
problems and a whole lot other issues to be worked on by me.

While I can mark any one of these mails with one of the 5 labels, that
thunderbird allows me to customize, to associate some sort of state or action -
this is manytimes not sufficient.

When I have a message selected or open, I want to be able to associate a simple
comment or notice, which would allow me to store detailed informations (about
the state or resolution, or about references etc.) along with the mail.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

I think this bug should be fix.
Sorry I'm too busy now to add comments.

Comment 4

[Joerg Buchberger]

the TB-extension "MessageNotes" is good enough to solve the most imminent
requirements for me; even though, this is not a perfect solution yet, I'd be
fine with closing this issue

Comment 5

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

Attachment: The extension "MyStickies" for Firefox

The extension "MyStickies" has a peace of what I need : the graphical look. But what I need look like the adobe Acrobat. Maybe this extension should be adaptated to Thunderbird & the starting point of work ?

Please, see comments in the extension page
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1875

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

tabbing for thunderbird 3 so we don't forget to discuss it when we start going through thunderbird 3 work.

Comment 7

[Joerg Buchberger]

the following discussion threads, found by searching for "msgnotes"
on http://forums.mozillazine.org search for "msgnotes", might add value to this discussion:
- MessageNotes ver 0.1.0 (for TB) released ( OK for TB 1.0.6 )
- Informal RFC: Message Notes..

the software being discussed can be downloaded from here and works fine with TB-1.0.6 (didn't try newer versions of TB yet:
http://www.supportware.net/mozilla/MsgNotes013.xpi
http://www.supportware.net/mozilla/MsgNotes.xpi 

Comment 8

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

Note that the new apple mail.app propose a behavior for this functionality : we should see what they've done and what we need.

If weave become a reality for Tb too the behavior we'll choose may be impacted.

Comment 9

[Peter Lairo]

While I can see the need for "commenting" on individual e-mails, this bug is unrelated to what I need in a "Notes" feature. In case others here are interested, there is a bug for that: bug 116945 (incredibly, it's WONTFIX)

Comment 10

[Greg]

I would like to be able to add a post-it type not to an incoming email as a reminder for the future.