It is ill-defined, yes. Hm...

Something similar to Google Reader might be nice, with the ability to 'star' items, and track read, and mark unread. Now that I think of it, how about letting us make an rss feed out of a custom search and just view it in your favorite feed reader? That might be fairly simple.

edit: Perhaps there is a simple or low-resource web rss feed reader that we can integrate with our message inbox? This is an example, I'm sure there are others as well.

Edit - please disregard this post