Feature request / feedback: filters and workflow keyboard shortcuts

[spaceman-cb]

Hi Kanmail team,

TLDR:

This app is almost exactly what I've been looking for, but not quite. A few keyboard shortcuts & filters would make it perfect

Background

I found your app while looking for an email client to help me track the status of different conversations across multiple inboxes/folders. In the past, I have tried using labels/folders for this (e.g. 'to do', 'doing', 'done'), but neither gmail nor any other mail clients I can find provide a good UI or a good set of shortcuts for this.

This is exactly what I have been looking for several years; however, without the following conveniences, it is not quite yet to the point where I could migrate to it.

Use cases/user stories:

Keyboard shorcuts: move thread to prev/next/nth column

What I want to do is to be able to quickly flip through and preview my mail threads, and then move them forward/backward in my workflow/columns with a single button press. something like Gmail's [ / ] shortcuts, except instead of archiving the thread, it would move it to the previous or next column, and then show me the next thread in the inbox/currently selected column.

An alternative idea would be using the number keys(?) to send the current thread to col 1-9 respectively?

Option to make last column = archive (?)

Just a thought, but often once I'm done with an email, I want to banish it to the archive.

Filter columns by current label

As far as I can tell, selecting a label/folder changes the contents of the leftmost pane, but doesn't filter the displayed columns.
If I am working on a set of emails in one folder, it would be nice if I could show ONLY those emails on the kanban board to cut down on clutter and help me focus on the work at hand.

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This is a very exciting app, and I hope to see more amazing features soon!
Thanks!

[Fizzadar]

Hey @spaceman-cb! Thank you for the feedback, this is super helpful! Will address each below:

Keyboard shortcuts

This is supported already - using the arrow keys! But this is also poorly documented (see: https://kanmail.io/docs/keyoard-shortcuts). Issue #3 tracks making the shortcuts customizable.

This should allow you to jump left/right/up/down between threads and columns as desired, although do let me know of any more shortcuts that would be useful!

Last column = archive

If I understand this you mean to have the final column on the right be archive? You can add this as a column yourself to achieve that currently (and "standard" folders can be columns), does that solve this for you?

Filter columns by label

You are correct currently the left panel only affects the left, "main", column. I really like the idea of filtering by the main column however. I actually think some work has been done before on this but will confirm that!