Make your e-mail conversations better using happy faces
Posted by Jorge Bernal November 25, 2007
I’m sure every one who uses email frequently, has suffered more than one email discussion.
Usually you may say things in an email that you wouldn’t say in person, or reply furious about something before counting to ten. This screenshot shows my little trick:
I’m using Apple Mail with Addressbook, but most of email programs support adding pictures to your contacts.
Find a picture of every of your colleagues, or people you write most and assign it to their contact info.
Make sure he or she is smiling, or with a lovely face, or even use a picture that reminds you of the best moments you have spent with that person.
Next time you are furious with that person (no matter what the cause is) you’ll see that picture and it might help you calm down and think in positive. It works quite well for me.
It is a pity that Evolution does not support faces…
@gamx: yes, it does, using old standard called x-face. It’s not the same, but still very amusing
This is more or less why I don’t answer emails ASAP (at least not in 10 mins). Email tends to strip out any emotional contact, but nice picture of our email partner gives relax feeling.
It is also definite reason why I love IM pictures, like in Gmail/Pidgin/Jabber. You see persona and then you mentally connect it with your emails.
Yes, it is how our mind works. Maybe not for all.
@gamix: it has, but it has several serious bugs. Apple saves those pictures in vCard format, but it’s not so well supported by Evolution. It would be nice though to have it.
As far as I understand, x-faces is different thing. x-faces allows you to attach a picture to messages. But what Apple mail does is differently: messages that you receive from people in your addressbook display the photo you have from them. That is cool and I think that it shouldn’t be very difficult to implement in Evolution, shouldn’t it?