Gmail Feature Request
I’d love to see a Gmail feature/addon for statistics. Google already has the service for Search History/Trends, so it shouldn’t take too much to port across.
It’s very big-brother-like, to have someone knowing that 5&6am are my least busy search hours, and Friday is my quietest search day. I don’t mind that Google have this data, as long as they don’t do an AOL and expose it to the world. I actually use this data to investigate/improve myself. To proactively (and reactively) work out why I was productive and why I was not at various times.
The stats that could be produced for Gmail are so easy:-
How many e-mails you’ve sent to $x user.
How many e-mails you’ve received from $y user.
Most frequent word/sentence in e-mail.
Most frequent time to receive/send e-mails.
Time spent writing e-mail.
Time spent reading e-mail.
Graph showing number of e-mails in inbox over time.
Graph showing size of inbox over time.