{"id":213,"date":"2009-03-26T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2009-03-26T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T03:52:08","slug":"mailtags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/mailtags\/2009\/03\/26\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailtags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my effort to practice &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\">Gettings Things Done<\/a>&#8216; I bought the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indev.ca\/MailTags.html\">Mailtags<\/a> plugin for Mail.app. Of course, my GTD efforts are wavering a bit as the year progresses, but there are some things about Mailtags that are quite novel. A lot of people told me &#8220;You should get blahblah GTD app to do GTD properly&#8221; (eg. Omnifocus, iGTD or one of the others). I&#8217;m a bit hesitant to just get dependent on &#8216;yet another app&#8217;, and I spend a lot of time looking at email, so I thought &#8216;why can&#8217;t i get Mail.app to help me do my GTD stuff&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mail.app has a few interesting features out of the box that are quite helpful like being able to write arbitrary Notes or ToDos that end up in your inbox somewhere. I don&#8217;t use the todos, but I do like the Notes. I feel more confident that I&#8217;ll find a note later if I write it in Mail.app than if I just write a little text file and leave it somewhere in my home directory. Sure there is spotlight to help find stuff, but Notes in Mail.app are effectively right in front of you &#8230; and you can have them appear in your Inbox if you need a more visual reminder.<\/p>\n<p>So what does mailtags do that I like? These are the main things for me;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s easier to highlight messages with a colour. Mail.app can already do this, so long as you have a mail rule doing it, but sometimes you just\u00a0 want to make a message &#8216;stand out&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>You can have a &#8216;Keywords&#8217; column in the main message list and that can show @Followup, @Action, etc (you can add user defined ones, but the basic ones are like GTD)<\/li>\n<li>You can attach arbitrary notes to a message and use them to change the subject of a message in the message list. Its such a weird thing to want to change the subject of a message, but I find it quite useful. Usually I use it to write in the next action for a task. For example, I get an email in from a client asking &#8216;Can you confirm next Monday to see if we&#8217;ll go ahead with the outage&#8217;. Now I could get off my arse and add an entry to my calendar, but for some reason I just change the subject to [ Confirm with Peter on Monday 23rd] (and I actually put the square brackets in to signify to me that the subject is changed &#8230; even though Mailtags changes the subject to italics anyway). The attached notes actually &#8216;stick&#8217; to a mail thread, so if I reply to the email in question, then get another reply back, the note is attached to the new reply as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main downside of Mailtags is the cost. I ummed and arrred for quite some time before spending the US$30 on it. Here in NZ thats quite a bit. But in the end it&#8217;s quite useful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my effort to practice &#8216;Gettings Things Done&#8216; I bought the Mailtags plugin for Mail.app. Of course, my GTD efforts are wavering a bit as the year progresses, but there are some things about Mailtags that are quite novel. 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