Imagine if Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo were incapable of grouping email conversations together. Without conversation grouping, or email threading, you might be able to sort by subject, but the software would not understand that “RE:” and “FW:” should be disregarded. The forwards would be in one group, the replies would all follow, and the original message could be anywhere. If two conversations had identical subjects, even if they were between entirely different people, you would need to manually read the email contents to discover which message belongs to which conversation.
If you had an alternative, would you ever consider using the email software described above?
It does sort of boggle the mind that there are people in the eDiscovery industry who just want to look at email in chronological order.
No, you don’t, you just don’t know how else to ask for it. It should be threaded, so that you can deal with one conversation at a time. Studies have shown, time and time again, that we work much faster when we can focus on one topic at a time. Why would we purposefully do something that makes us flit around from subject to subject on every email?
Per MarcV’s request in the comments for that last post. Here’s a brief description of what I’m using OneNote for. I’ll break it down into two sections, because I use my official work copy on my desktop at work, and my free “thanks for beta testing and attending the rollout event” copy on my personal…
This seems really interesting. Not only for in-house folks dealing with eDiscovery but also for those of us in a law firm, or other entity, that works with those folks. It never hurts to be able to understand what your clients are dealing with. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this site. “CorporateEdiscovery.com is…
These are real time notes, so don’t expect real deep thoughts here, but do comment on anything that strikes you as interesting. 🙂 From Good to Great: Take your group from Litigation Support Providers to Expertise Ambassadors for your Firm. Pretty full room, lots of interest in the area. Dominic Jaar, Duane Lites and Susan…
It’s not about creating a great product for customers, and it’s not about creating a sustainable, profitable company. It’s about jacking the stock price and getting out with your profits.
I spent over an hour helping one of the tenants of our office building with an email problem. He explained to me that he couldn’t send email, even though he was receiving email just fine. Figuring this was a server issue, or a simple settings issue, I agreed to go over and check all of…
I signed up for this webinar as soon as I saw the title, Creating Standards for Ediscovery Practices. First, the bad news: Without a framework for success, electronic discovery (or “e-discovery”) projects can result in expensive sanctions and wasted resources, not to mention missed deadlines, productivity loss and frustration. The good news is that, since…
