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	INTRO
	PROTOTYPE
		Inbox
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		Collections
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		Calendar
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	VISUALIZATIONS
		Thread Arcs
		Correspondents
		Message Map
	PUBLICATIONS
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Calendar
Calendars are important organizational tools. A calendar integration with email provides convenience to users, as email often contains information about times and dates. The Remail prototype allows people to easily move messages onto their calendar as reminders or events. Clicking and dragging any message to the calendar brings up a scheduling dialog box. If the item was dropped onto the day of the event in the calendar's at-a-glance month view, the dialog box is filled in as a "reminder" type entry for that day. If the item was dropped on a particular hour in the calendar's at-a-glace day view, the dialog box is filled in with the start time and date of the event. The message in the in-box is marked with a calendar icon, and clicking on this icon makes that day appear on the calendar. Remail also detects dates and times in the body of an email message and allows people to use this information to prefill the scheduling dialog automatically.

calendar inbox

Having the calendar alongside the in-box keeps the user's schedule in view at all times. The calendar is resizable, allowing it to become a narrow strip when not needed or stretched to reveal both at-a-glance day and month views.

dates

In addition, Remail allows users to intelligently search for emails containing specific dates. For example, if a user searches for messages containing the date "12/13/03," Remail will find the messages containing that text as well as those containing equivalent expressions of that date, such as the phrase "December 13, 2003" or the "13th of Dec."

calendar box