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Add tags to gmail using del.icio.us e.g.
Balthasar Glättli | Mar 19 2008
Using gmail I always missed a decent tagging feature. The labels provided are fine to mark general categories, e.g. @home, @work or @@waiting_for If you are not working on more then a dozen projects you might use labels as well to sort your mails into projects. But when it comes to more granular tagging, labels definitely are no longer a solution. However, I found a nice workaround. Use the new gmail interface that provides among other features the possibility to bookmark every individual email, see feature # on http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/5-little-known-gmail-features-you-... Combine this with e.g. del.icio.us or any other online or offline tool of your liking that allows you to tag bookmarks. Here you are: you don't have to wait for the folks at google to add real tagging to gmail. I have put online a screencast showing this possibility to push gmail further using tags: Waiting for your comments! It might well be that someone else put this together before I did - I'd be glad to get any references. Balthasar 1 Comment
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 tagging gmailSubmitted by InfiniteWorld on April 30, 2008 - 8:43pm.
Lately I've just started replying to an email with a list of tags. That way my tag list ends up end up attached to the conversation and will show up in searches. It is a very fast and simple way to tag emails. The only shortcoming of this method is that you have to be really careful when you reply to the email that you replace the senders' email address with your own so you don't send your list of tags to them rather than yourself.. could be embarrassing (e.g. mytags: loser co-worker, annoying, haha...). Also note that you can create a filter that recognizes your tagged emails and marks them as read so you don't get a new email when you tag your mail. The way to do this is to add to your email some unique text like "mytaglist:" before your tag list, then make a filter to mark any incoming emails with that tag as read. Seems like it would be fairly easy to write a gmail plugin that would avoid the problem of accidentally sending the email to the last sender ... anyone want to take this on? :) » POSTED IN:
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