Reminder views in email applications

A method for facilitating draft reminders comprising:

• rendering a navigation panel in a user interface to an email application that includes a list of folders, including an inbox folder and a drafts folder;
• rendering an application bar having a plurality of options selectable to navigate to a plurality of different modules;
• rendering in the application bar a graphic drafts reminder option, wherein the graphic drafts reminder option is selectable for viewing a subset of the draft emails selected from the draft emails in the drafts folder;
• in response to a selection of the graphic drafts reminder option, identifying the subset of the draft emails based on a reminder criteria;
• when the inbox folder is selected, rendering a view of an inbox in the user interface that includes a list of emails in the inbox;
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• in response to the graphic drafts reminder option being selected, surfacing a drafts reminder view, overlaid with respect to the view of the inbox, that includes only the subset of the draft emails.

A computing apparatus comprising:

• one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media;
• a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media that, when executed by the processing system, direct the computing apparatus system to at least:
• render a primary view of an information management application, the primary view comprising a plurality of emails in an inbox;
• render an application bar comprising a plurality of options selectable to navigate to a plurality of different modules and a graphic drafts reminder option;
• in response to a selection of the graphic drafts reminder option, identify, based on reminder criteria, a plurality of draft emails residing in a drafts folder to include in a drafts reminder view, each of the plurality of draft emails comprising draft content composed therein that was not sent, wherein the drafts reminder view is separate from the drafts folder;
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• in response to a selection of the graphic drafts reminder option, render the drafts reminder view in a manner accessible without navigating away from the primary view, the drafts reminder view comprising only the plurality of draft emails and at least a portion of the draft content composed with respect to each of the plurality of draft emails.