Shanti’s Dispatches

Gabriel says:

In Google’s gmail webmail offering, one of the things I absolutely love and adore is the Archive button. So simple. So easy. So perfect for what it does.

You read an item. You absorb the content. You hit Archive. It goes away. Into the netherworld. Tucked into place where Google‚Äôs almighty seeing eye knows right where it is. Archive is freedom. Archive is release. Archive allows you to free yourself from past communication, ideas and concepts, safe in the knowledge that it is a simple click on the “All Mail” link to see what you need again. Or simply search for it, and lightning fast, it is back for you.

But you don’t have to categorize it. You don‚Äôt have to worry. Just hit Archive, and it is gone. Out of sight, out of mind. I really want an Archive button for everything now. Okay, I‚Äôm done with you, click Archive. Next. I think Archive is one of the most useful features of gmail, and is a concept which will spread to other software, it is just that good of an idea.

Gabriel asks: what else do you want an Archive button for?

How about one for people…

I’ve actually got a category in my Palm Pilot address list called “Lost” - for people who’ve I’ve lost touch with over the years.

Idea:

How bout a web service (like friendster meets classmates.com) where you list names + rough dates / locations of when you knew them. When two people enter the same data, it automatically notifies both parties of a possible match.

You can bookmark this, digg this or check the cosmos