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Vox Populi: How are you using Mail Tags?
Merlin Mann | Oct 18 2006
I open the floor to all of you on a question of particular personal interest to me: How are you using Mail Tags? While my uses of it to date have been helpful, I keep getting the feeling I'm not getting all that I can out of it -- especially since the ability to associate Projects, Priorities, etc. to a message could make for some really enticing Smart Folders. I wonder if my question is ultimately more taxonomic in nature -- ultimately more about Spotlight in general or Tags in very very general: When tagging items on your Mac, what kind of '-onomy' are you using? How strictly do you enforce your vocabulary? What are the best practices for someone who's new to this? Confidential to Mr. Thomas Vander Wal: if you turn up here and school me a bit on this, I’ll totally buy you a Coke. If you write a guest post on it, I’ll buy you a beefsteak and two cocktails. Seriously. Steak. 27 Comments
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 I have three smart folders:...Submitted by Eelco (not verified) on October 22, 2006 - 5:55am.
I have three smart folders: 'Action', 'Waiting For' and 'Reply To' (just respond, no further action). 'Waiting For' is for tagging mail I sent and expect a reply to, so that I forget. I most often use the 'Action' tag/folder, which I also check for a weekly review. A really cool feature in my opinion (it just takes too many keystrokes) is using the 'iCal To Do' and assigning the email to an iCal calendar that is also synced with Kinkless. That way 'Action' emails will show up automatically in Kinkless' inbox. Unfortunately Kinkless looses the link to the e-mail (which the original iCal todo's have). » POSTED IN:
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