I use "drafts" for this purpose, mostly because all email clients support it. That and there is no tricky meta-data to store/move/delete with each message.

I'll begin a reply to the email I want to comment on, write my notes, then save as draft.

When reading a thread, I do have to navigate to Drafts folder to retrieve my notes (though gmail is kind enough to connect the draft to the thread), but eventually the thread will become old and stale, and it's easy to purge old drafts.

However, notes-per-message (as well as free-standing notes) seems like a cool idea. How would you store the data? (Add another header to the email? Require the DB?)

-gnul

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Chris Hodsonchris@gozone.info wrote:

I really like using roundcube webmail.

I have always thought that a brilliant feature that would make any email system stand apart would be a notes feature.  Imagine if you had a notes window for each email.  When you click on an email you can see any notes you have left previously.  So if I get an email from my boss asking me to do 3 things I can keep a record of what I have done to act on the email.

I would love this feature.

Kind regards, Chris Hodson

www.GOZONE.info

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