A lot of the new features sound like they are implementations of those described in the version of Apple's Mail.app that is due to ship with Tiger. I wonder if this kind of thing will dissuade companies like Apple from announcing new features so far before they are ready for release.
the way Notes stores mail is a little different in concept to most other things, folders don't "contain" messages, messages exist in their own right in the database irrespective of what folders they might be in. It is perfectly valid for a message to exist without any folders including the message. Folders in Notes can have documents dragged into them which stores that association and you can get to the message through the folder. A saved search is what would be called a view in Notes, that is a folder which is based on a selection formula rather than manual fileing. It is perfectly valid also for one message to be shown in many many folders and views, but delete it from one it is deleted from all. Deleting a message is very different from removing it from a folder. Views and folders can also be categorised, this is basically the same thing as the group by feature. Notes views are indexed rather than calculated on the fly so I suspect they would be quicker for large mail files.
Notes of course isn't open source and you can only do limited view customisation without the design client, I do like the user interface for creating these saved searches, it is better than creating a private view in Notes.
Even with a design client you are limited to the fact that if you change the design you will either lose your changes during the next incremental release or be stuck on that version of notes mail forever.
I personally find it a miracle that the mail file works at all. It is with out doubt one of the worst pieces of coding that I have ever seen. Talk about verbose.
Chandler [osafoundation.org] is an open source application that is intended to replace and revolutionize PIM and messaging. At least one team member worked on Lotus Agenda. So, with a bit of luck you might get in the near future a replacement for your Notes:)
Tiger Features? (Score:4, Interesting)
also Lotus Notes (Score:4, Informative)
Notes of course isn't open source and you can only do limited view customisation without the design client, I do like the user interface for creating these saved searches, it is better than creating a private view in Notes.
Re:also Lotus Notes (Score:1)
I personally find it a miracle that the mail file works at all. It is with out doubt one of the worst pieces of coding that I have ever seen. Talk about verbose.
Re:also Lotus Notes (Score:2)
Re:also Lotus Notes (Score:1)