by Alec Muffett
Really simple UI idea which will (alas) never get implemented:
“Send Lock” – a small padlock icon which when clicked (“locked”) inhibits the message from being sent (send-button is greyed out) until it is unclicked and sending is attempted again.
This way, if you know you’re going to spend an hour editing a message then at least you can be sure it wo’t get sent until you’re absolutely done; but for 99% of cases it’s less obtrusive than a permanent send-confirmation dialogue would be.
You like?
I like it very much.
There’s some key combination in Entourage that is “send immediately” and I accidentally hit it all the time. My workaround is to disconnect all network interfaces if I really don’t want to send prematurely.
Quite – what I do is elide all the To/CC addresses, but then I have to put the back afterwards …
Rather than removing all the To/CC addresses I stick XXX on the end of them all – which works for a small To/CC list but not a big one.
I do this by just not filling in the To/Cc fields until I’m done.
Yup, definitely like – would also apply to responses to emails that trigger a negative emotional response (though then you’d need the user to teach a Bayesian filter about what triggers flaming from them).
I put in a single address of xxxx on Outlook. It then asks me about this unknown address if I accidentally send before I’m ready.
It really irritates me that ctrl-Enter is used on some mail clients as the keyboard shortcuyt for send. I find it spectacularly easy to accidentally hit if I’m doing cut&paste (I don’t let go of the ctrl key enough if I’m adding a return ebtween the cut & paste).
What I think we’re establishing here is an actual unmet functional need. 🙂
Anything that needs that much care I edit in vi first, then include the file as an attachment. Guess that makes me oldschool.
So, when you unlock, would there be a dialog box asking “Are you sure?”
Or how about the style wizard which prompts: “Hmmm, you have used 98% capitalization in your message text – would you like me to tone that down a bit for you?”
> then include the file as an attachment
Ughhh, that’s horrible. Most clients won’t display the content of the attachment in-line making the message a significant amount more unwieldy. I hate unnecessary attachments.
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