{"id":28438,"date":"2020-03-23T16:43:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28438"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:07:10","slug":"apple-mails-magic-mailboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/23\/apple-mails-magic-mailboxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mail&rsquo;s Magic Mailboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techreflect.net\/2020\/03\/20\/magic-mailboxes\/\">Chris Hynes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techreflect.net\/2020\/03\/20\/magic-mailboxes\/\">\n<p>One of my proudest achievements on the team (and at Apple) was brainstorming with my team members and pushing an idea we internally called Magic Mailboxes and eventually became called Combined Mailboxes.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The 4 &ldquo;combined mailboxes&rdquo; (INBOX, Drafts, Sent, Trash) would get top billing, positioned at the top of the list, with unique and large icons to distinguish themselves<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Clicking on any of the combined mailboxes would show the union of all the messages in all accounts<\/p>\n<p>Flipping open a disclosure triangle on one of the combined mailboxes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember that drawer?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/behind-the-scenes-on-apples-aperture-team\/\">Behind the Scenes on Apple&rsquo;s Aperture Team<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apple-mails-magic-mailboxes-update-2020-03-27\">Update (2020-03-27): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=22668590\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hynes: One of my proudest achievements on the team (and at Apple) was brainstorming with my team members and pushing an idea we internally called Magic Mailboxes and eventually became called Combined Mailboxes. [&#8230;] The 4 &ldquo;combined mailboxes&rdquo; (INBOX, Drafts, Sent, Trash) would get top billing, positioned at the top of the list, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-03-23T20:43:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"304aefbf-3351-482d-a3c9-00e6626300a3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-03-27T20:07:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMErvvzNRSC2jyQDmYmMAow","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,295,30,655],"class_list":["post-28438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applemail","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-2-jaguar"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28485,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28438\/revisions\/28485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}