Timed Mobile Messages

This is simple: I mean should be simple to implement :-)

These are mobile messages that are typed and set to sent at a future date (just like messages in your MS Outlook that can be sent at a future date). Could be handled by the phone application itself the way it remembers the reminders etc. Or by the server. The message sent can be stored at the server and later sent by server at the specified date.



The better solution would be to implement this feature at the application level so that a user may edit too if desired before the send-date.

Tracking Original Browser Destination

Reading on the Internet is so interesting that it is difficult to keep a track of what we actually started reading and where we ended. For those who wish to stick to completing the original reading task first its important to go back to it whenever they have wandered just by a single click.

One of most used ways is clicking the "back" button in the browser repeatedly. But what if we place a bookmark at the reading starting point and where ever we wander a small icon appears on those pages that could take us to original page.

So, a 'small marker' stays visible on the screen browser, that could take you to the original destination.

Auto Expirations for Documents (extn: Email messages)

The idea is to have a time-bomb in-built in a document to save space on our local drives and networks.
Eg. When we create documents or share some documents we don't ever think they would be redundant after some time, and a clean up activity would need to be performed each year to clear up space on our systems and networks.

Working:
While creating files/folders one can specify the 'Delete-Date' of it. And it gets recorded as a scheduled process in the Operating system. A message would be displayed for the list of files that would be deleted by the EOD. The deleted files could be recovered from the recycler within a week.
We could extend the same to Email messages which could expire after a specified duration. So, some of the confidential email messages could be timed, they could expire after a specified duration.

Usage:
1. Shared folders.
2. Confidential Documents
3. Non-reusable documents

Similar to:
1. Auto clean-up of the 'junk-folder' in an email account.
2. Auto clean up of specified folders through a script.

Book marks within Internet Pages

I was browsing a very long monolithic webpage, then I realized it was difficult to read it in just one sitting. I wanted to place a marker at a paragraph and close it so that I could start reading from the marker the next time. But doing the same would have involved-
1. Saving that page to .htm and placing a marker preferably colored.
2. Editing the saved page in an editor.
Many a times it happens, we just skim through the parts of the interesting webpage to just read it in the required time.

We have fancy looking bookmarks / facility to fold the page / pencil-marks on the physical paper to bookmark the places to start reading from, Similar to this there should be a method of using bookmarks with similar ease to for the webpages too.

IMPLEMENTATION:
Having a server level implementation is difficult in the current scenario. However, we may simply implement this feature within the browser to mark the last-read place of the webpage. And this would again be machine-specific, browser-specific (just like current bookmarks) but we would certainly be at peace to complete those pending to-be-read LONG webpages.

Context Sensitive Commands.

Creating Context Sensitive Commands.

The basic idea is having context sensitive engine within our computers. It keeps recording the user behavior and builds the context sensitive commands based on the user behavior. So your computer learns from you and then supports your actions for your ease.

And its instances could be numerous, one can actually build up a plethora of activities to simplify for the user. I can quote some instances here-
- I have copied a font file on my clipboard (obviously to paste it somewhere), when I type Start->Run, then it can automatically show me the c:\windows\fonts as the first option and other folders where I generally keep my font files.
- In my Internet browser, I right click to save a file. In the save as, the topmost options it could have shown me is the list of folder where I usually save my images.

These small actions can add up to easing the user day-to-day redundant tasks.