If any authors of either RSS readers or mail clients are listening heres a suggestion for you – where you allow flagging of messages it would seem to be to also all allow some form of note, label or tagging to be attached to that flag. Particularly with web feeds, or incoming mail from mailing lists I find that I pick messages to because they contains some useful information, a link I want to refer to later or other piece of information that I think I may want to follow up with.
But what I seem to end up with in the end is an overwhelming jumble of flagged messages (either in Mail.app or NetNewsWire). Sure, each app then allows for searching or sorting of some kind, but I find I rarely simply browse the pile and rarely end up revisiting those messages unless I’m looking for something highly specific.
Now, I’m not huge into the tagging phenomenon (though useful, I don’t feel the urge to tag everything I ever look at) but some method of tagging or simple comment system (“this is a really good solution to that problem you had on site xyz”) would be more then welcome in these type of apps.
Alternatively, does anyone out there have any Mac solutions, different apps that would allow me to flag messages (or entries) and tack on some additional information to go back later? Mailing myself messages from lists is just so much of a kludge.
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