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The combination of Mail Act-On...

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The combination of Mail Act-On...

The combination of Mail Act-On and Mail Tags (both here) can do this pretty well for Mail.app. (Mail Tags is the newer one; it allows for tagging messages with project keywords, deadlines for action, etc, all of which can be used in Act-On rules and are — I think — Spotlight-able.)

GTD-style email in Thunderbird By: Merlin Mann (5 replies) September 1, 2005 - 6:40am
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