Inbox 3.0 - My Reading Habits

In my first prototype of the new Inbox menu, I added a new menu item called "My Reading Habits".  Attention data is one of the key new features in Inbox 3.0 and this menu option was going to be the way of seeing that data. 

The first step was to figure out how to gather that data.  Now that I have it, I started in on how to display it.  So I sat down with some people from my "New Features Idea Board" (aka NewsGator Support) and hashed out how we think it should work.

After that, we took a look at Nick Bradbury's latest FeedDemon build (you'll see it soon enough) and low and behold almost everything we had discussed NickB had already.  I had my starting point (#1).

My next challenge was to present it in an Outlook 2007 look and feel (another main theme of Inbox 3.0)... so I'd like to get some feedback on what you think of the "rough draft".

The "My Reading Habits" dialog looks like this alone:

I tried to model the look and feel after the Outlook 2007 "Outlook Today" page.  Here's the "My Reading Habits" dialog with "Outlook Today" behind it:

 
(A full screenshot can be seen here)

Like I said, this is a rough draft (no need to point out that my XSLT is showing future dates ;-).  I plan on a few other views (Most / Least Attention, Stale Subscriptions) but I'm wondering what you think so far.

Is it Outlook Friendly or is it Outlook overkill?
Is it useful?
What would make it more useful?
What other kind of information would you like to see?

Leave a comment, or drop a note in the NewsGator Inbox Forum!

 

#1 - One of the things NickB and I have been discussing, pretty much from the FeedDemon acquisition, is collaboration on usability between our readers and making common things familiar.  Hence some of the design of NewsGator Desktop and subtle changes in Inbox over time as well as the new "Cleanup Wizard" feature.