Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chao-Chung Lin

Jason Todd Henderson

Michael Anthony Faoro

Joseph McLaughlin

Eva Britta Karolina Burlin

Robert Meyer

Andrew John Sullivan

John Leslie Gibbon

Guojun Yu

David Pierre Marcel Claux

Jonathan David Friedman

David Claux

Kenneth Fern

Russell Lee Simpson, Jr

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Jeffrey Kevin Feiereisen

Yung-Cheng Chen

Jasdeep Singh Chugh

Michael R Gow

Kristian Lennart Magnus Andaker

Kristian Lm Andaker

Russell Lee Simpson

Joseph P Mclaughlin

A compose form for drafting a message is presented inline within a window along with a message list. For example, instead of overlaying the message application's user interface (UI) with a new window for composing a message, the compose form is displayed within a portion of the window reserved for viewing content of messages. While composing the message using the compose form, the rest of the message application's UI remains visible and accessible to the user. For example, the user may navigate to another folder and/or move to another message/conversation by interacting with the tree view/message list view. A draft of the message being composed may be automatically saved when the user navigates away from the compose form (e.g. by selecting another conversation in the list view).

Inline message composing with visible list view

Techniques for providing an in-place contextual menu and user interface for email and other information management system triage are provided in which a contextual menu can be overlaid or replace an item on a view screen. The contextual menu can provide action commands specific to the type and state of the items selected in the feature view of the email or other information management system. A single recognized selection input, such as a swipe gesture, selects an item and invokes an in-place contextual menu presenting actions that can be asserted on the selected item. Multiple item selection is available through the same invocation of presenting the in-place contextual menu.

In-place contextual menu for handling actions for a listing of items

Systems, methods, and software disclosed herein facilitate draft reminders. In at least one implementation, a primary view of an information management application is rendered. In various scenarios the primary view may include primary items, such as emails, events, tasks, or other types of items. When a reminder view is invoked, draft items are identified to include in the reminder view. The reminder view is then rendered in an overlaid manner with respect to the primary view and includes the draft items.

Reminder views in email applications

Reminder views for facilitating draft reminders

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