Alert for Unanswered Messages
Why?
You send a message asking the other party a question or some information but still didn’t get an answer after a while.
How?
A function of the messaging app that detects open-ended questions and alerts you after a while if no reply arrives.
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Collaborative Library
Why?
- Having every book on a subject of interest is hard.
- You rarely actually need to have all the books at hand.
How?
You collaborate with others who are interested in building an extensive library on a particular topic. You rent a space together and furnish it with book shelves. Each one of you contributes their own books on the subject to your library. Each book continues to belong to the person who contributed it, and inventory is prepared and maintained.
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Check List Option for Everything
Why?
Checklists are very useful but are not available everywhere on your device.
How?
Add a basic feature of the OS that enables you to attach a checklist to any item like a calendar appointment, reminder, note, etc.
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Email Productivity Help
Why?
One of the worst problems is you are dealing with the same email again and again. When it first arrives you open it to see what’s inside. You don’t want to deal with it now (for real good reasons or maybe just procrastination), so you close it. A few hours or days later you open it again, spend some time on it and then leave it again. By the time you get to doing something about it (or more likely deleting it), you already spend too much time on it.
How?
Have an option in your email client to have emails only open once. After you close the email, it will disappear into the “already opened ” abyss, where it will be permanently deleted after a while. You can, of course, look for it there, but I’ll bet you you’ll never look for most of them ever again. This will:
1. Teach you only to deal with an email once.
2. Force you to deal with every email (even if just deleting it.)
3. Help you not use your email system as a database – if it’s important save it in a better place.
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Two Dimensional Web Site or Blog Navigation
Why?
An easier way to navigate?
How?
Make it work similarly to microfiche. Scroll horizontally to navigate between columns of articles, each column a different subject. Scroll vertically to navigate between articles within a given subject. Zoom in (click) on an article to see all of it.
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