“Please Note” – Message Annotation for your Email
Friday, December 19th, 2008Have you ever wanted to add a note to an email for yourself or someone else? The digital age has seen the paper-clipped note go the way of the dinosaur. Today’s software programs may offer electronic notes and comments, but none specifically for email that is also shareable across programs. Until now. LuxSci has a feature in WebMail to add notes to messages that can be viewed by everyone and in most email programs.
Except for Thunderbird and a few others, we are not aware of an email client that lets you make "notes" on email messages… and those that do are only visible in program that created them and not by anyone else looking at the message via IMAP or WebMail. We got to thinking of how useful a note would be that is part of the email message and viewable by anyone, in any email program. The LuxSci email note literally "sticks" with the message as it is forwarded to someone or copied/moved to another email folder.
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