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Hawk Wings: Me on Mail.app

Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Talking Mail.app: Merlin Mann

Tim Gaden's been doing a series on various Mac folks' usage of Mail.app. He's talked with folks like John Gruber, Mathowie, and Ethan Schoonover about what they like (and don't) about OS X's default mail application, as well as the ways they'd like to see it improve.

Tim was kind enough to ask me as well, and the results are up at Hawk Wings:

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Organize bookmarks in non-browser format?

I'm trying to organize my bookmarks and I think I'm kinda screwed now.

For a few years now, I've been keeping my "most important" links in plain HTML files which I set as my Homepage with tabs at the top for Main, Software, University, Research, etc. instead of using my browser's bookmark organizer. It works(ed) quite well. But, over the years, and a few thousand bookmarks now, its completely unmanagable to sort through. I have a good idea of what I want to keep. Worse, I've been saving bookmarks in different browsers so I have some in Safari and Firefox.

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Command line tips and tricks to speed up your life

Command line tips and tricks to speed up your life

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Creative Post-It Usage

Creative Post-It Usage

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TOPICS: Life Hacks

What about little or no will to do things?

What about little or no will to do things?

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TOPICS: Life Hacks

Fighting overextension; First look at Numbers; "Linkable" notebooks; Doing v. tracking; Better 404s

Start Here - Notebooks

Best mobile / cell phone for GTD?

Best mobile / cell phone for GTD?

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Fresh voices on 43 Folders

Since 43 Folders launched three years ago, I've been thrilled and humbled by the insight that readers, commenters, and the occasional guest blogger have brought to this modest undertaking. And I've regretted that it's been a little clunky to properly share those insights with the same authority and promotion as your hapless author's contributions. Well, I think we're about to get better at that.

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TOPICS: Admin

`/iagr@! $43 or: a big shout-out to the spam-stalkers

`/iagr@! $43 or: a big shout-out to the spam-stalkers

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Mac Mail Question

Mac Mail Question

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TOPICS: Mac OS X
 
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