I dont yet have a good name for this concept, but here's the idea anyway:
You know a lot of good ideas are better put in an email instead of a separate document because people will not open that attachment?
What if you could actually then easily extract out such content and make it available as a document? Further, what if the original recipients of your email continue to see it as an email, but it has a separate life as a document?
This is what I mean by the Email server being a document server as well. Each email could contain multiple such documents; or each email could itself be a document. The inline vs attachment line is blurred, but at the same time, individual bits within emails become addressable entities outside of the email thread.
Right now, we save such emails, re-format them as documents and stick them in a wiki or sharepoint. What if the Email server did all this for us?
You know a lot of good ideas are better put in an email instead of a separate document because people will not open that attachment?
What if you could actually then easily extract out such content and make it available as a document? Further, what if the original recipients of your email continue to see it as an email, but it has a separate life as a document?
This is what I mean by the Email server being a document server as well. Each email could contain multiple such documents; or each email could itself be a document. The inline vs attachment line is blurred, but at the same time, individual bits within emails become addressable entities outside of the email thread.
Right now, we save such emails, re-format them as documents and stick them in a wiki or sharepoint. What if the Email server did all this for us?
