Speed is a need, minimized typing too
I think that tags (categories) should be reconsidered.
I use them a lot in other apps and I find them a lot useful. By the way, EM deals with them in an unconfortable way at my own opinion.
When I tag (categorize) something (email, a contact …) I have to rightclick and look for a tag that already exists, in an unordered liust, or, altternatively, edit that item (email, contact …) and choose a category from the unordered list within. More than that, if the category doesn’t exist, I have to go the “Tools > Categories” menu and edit them.
Tags should be a lot more quick!
If I right click over an item, I think that, the list of categories / tags should be more dynamic:
- it should exist the possibility to create a new one while tagging (ore several).
- Not to say that it shold be very interesting to make a dinamic list of recent / more used tags while typing, not all of them
Of course, added to that, enabling a “tags” filter view in all the accounts would be a truly killer functionality.
Tags should be considered a part of folders. They are different concepts. an item belongs to only one folder, but can “belong” to multiple tags.
BTW, autotagging filters to incomming emails could be, of course, a plus!
Think in Evernote and you’ll win!