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Easy Mail.app sorting

I'm a recent convert from Windows to Mac and have been loving it so far.

One thing I really haven't gotten solved yet though is email. Since my work uses Exchange, I was using Outlook 2007 before and had this wonder add-in called ClearContext (http://www.clearcontext.com/) that allowed me to quickly assign a category/topic to a thread, and then with one click, the entire thread would be filed away into the topic's folder and out of my inbox.

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Quicksilver and Devonthink

Quicksilver and Devonthink

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Used and love macs, but never owned. Should I?

Used and love macs, but never owned. Should I?

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repeating to-do items in iCal?

repeating to-do items in iCal?

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Converting from hanging folders to manila folders

I have a file cabinet, front opening, that doesn't have the slider in the back to allow me to use regular manila folders instead of hanging folders. I tossed the hanging folders out and started to reorganize, and I liked it MUCH BETTER without the hanging folders.

Problem is, I can't keep the folders up. So, I went out and bought some Smead FasTab hanging folders. They have a tab built in. I like the FasTab way better than the Pendaflex cr*p. But I still prefer just plain manila folders.

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Organising emails with Gmail and an email client. Synchronisation possible?

Organising emails with Gmail and an email client. Synchronisation possible?

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Doin' it on paper

Doin' it on paper

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Collecting ideas whilst walking

Collecting ideas whilst walking

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Web developer getting started with GTD - Project question..

Hi All,

I've been reading through the GTD book this week, up to page 157 so far.

One question that's been nagging me all along, is projects. For example, take the following 3 projects;

Software Functionality A

Software Functionality B

Client Website A

At the moment, I see the following options for working with projects:

  1. Project entries contain project name, notes and mindmap, and all next actions are entered into next/actions itself.

  2. Project entries contain project name, and list of next actions, that I review when looking for next work to do.

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Organizing ideas and sketches for artists

I am an illustrator who does storyboards for advertising and I am trying to make my self teaching more rational and to the point. The outcome I'm after is that I'll have the ability to keep my train of thought recorded using words as well as my sketches so that when work sporadically comes in and interrupts my explorations I wont come back two weeks later with only the memory of something exciting I was doing but can't quite remember what it was.

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