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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 use mailtags and act-on...Submitted by Arjan Terol (not verified) on October 19, 2006 - 10:28am.
I use mailtags and act-on to tame the mail beast. I use rules to assign project names and tags (client email > client project) to incomming mail. My folders are: 1. Urgent 2. Needs action 3. Waiting for reply / onhold 4. Idears 6. Customers 7. Office 8. Archive - Archive sent I have also some smartfolders who are looking for e-mails with a specific mail tag. For example 'hosting'. I use act-on to archive messages or change the e-mail status. » POSTED IN:
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