Featr user scenario

John is a 40 year old business manager. He receives on average 150 mails a day, is active on Twitter and Google+, follows blogs which could be interesting for his company and is in contact with his colleagues via Yammer. Handling all this streams of information separately would take him too much time, so he uses our Featr application to save time.

After his lunch break on Monday, John starts Featr and all new messages are shown on the main page. He first wants to process his mails, so at the right sidebar he only selects mail as a source of messages. He has 44 new mails. 8 of the mails concern a new project ‘X’ the company is starting, so he tags them with the name ‘project X’. There are also 3 very important mails coming from his boss. He gives these messages priority level 1. 11 mails absolutely need to be handled before leaving the workplace, so he drags them to ‘Today’ on top of the left sidebar. The user-defined deadlines pop up and he drags them further to ‘At  work’. Another 13 just need to be handled today, so he drags them to ‘Before sleeping’. The other 20 mails are dragged to ‘Tuesday’ -  ‘At work’.

Next John chooses to process all other incoming messages so he checks the ‘All sources’ button of the right sidebar. Next he drags the messages to the deadlines he chooses. John also drags some useless messages directly to the trash-folder. When all messages are processed, John switches to the ToDo tab pane using the tabs on the top and selects ‘Today’ - ‘At work’ on the left sidebar to see which messages needs to be handled before he leaves the workplace. He first handles some messages from his boss who have priority level 1. John opens the messages in a pop-up by double-clicking them. When he wants to take an action like respond to a mail, the application will redirect him to his mail client. He then handles all the messages with a ‘project X’-tag. Next he needs to go to a meeting so he will have to handle the other messages some other time.

Just before going home, he processes all new messages and handles all the messages that needed to be done before leaving the workplace. He then goes home to his wife and kids and has lunch. After reading a bed-time story to his children he handles all messages that he needed to look at before going to bed. He can then go to sleep knowing he has responded to everything that needed to be taken care of.