Re: [Sum] Contacts Design

On Thursday 12 July 2007 11:03:51 you wrote:
>
> Stamping Contacts
> + I think we're in agreement that Stamping Contacts to add them to
> the Task list / Calendar and vice versa is not particularly
> compelling, although Ted said he would use that feature. (I still
> feel we should leave this functionality in place for now and figure
> out how to deal with these modeling issues through some usage.)
>
> + I believe we're also in agreement that jotting down a Note and
> saving an Email as a Contact *are* compelling use cases.

I don't think the email use case is that compelling. The reason for this 
is that the email headers shown in DV could be used to *create* a 
Contact, just the way in KMail while reading a message I can 
right-click on an address in the header pane and choose "add to address 
book". Similarly, Thunderbird automatically creates a contact instance 
with just the email address filled in (and name, if it can be extracted 
from the address) for every email I send, IIRC. Other mailers might 
have similar functionality, and so this kind of workflow should be 
reasonably familiar to a new user.

Davor
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