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I use mainly the keywords...Vox Populi: How are you using Mail Tags? By: Merlin Mann (27 replies) October 18, 2006 - 8:26am
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I use mainly the keywords...
I use mainly the keywords related to GTD: GTDAction, GTDWaitingFor, GTDSomedayMaybe and GTDReplytoWaitingFor . Then I write in the notes filed the next action or similar note.
I have a nifty thing for waitingfor that I picked up somewhere: When I send a mail I’m awaiting an answer for I put the GTDWaitingFor keyword and puts wf inconspiciously at the end of the mail (among the stuff of my signature). Big chance is that when replied to, this text will be in the reply message and hence I have a mailing rule that automatically tags those messages with the keyword GTDReplytoWaitingFor. Having a smart mailbox containing all messages tagged with either GTDWaitingFor or GTDReplytoWaitingFor makes it easy to sift through what messages I’m still awaiting a reply and what has been replied. Cheers