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Favorite Windows email tricks and plugins
Merlin Mann | Aug 27 2006
I'm working on an article about email tricks for one of your finer magazines, and -- as you might imagine -- when it comes to the inevitable Windows stuff, I'm a bit light in the useful tips department. So, I turn to you Redmond-using smarties for help. Do you have a favorite application, plugin, trick, or hack for bending Windows email to your will? Double-credit for Outlook add-ons that garden-variety users can install without fancy root-style access. Whence comes your magic Windows fu? 64 Comments
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 In Thunderbird I have set...Submitted by MWF (not verified) on August 28, 2006 - 5:49am.
In Thunderbird I have set up an "Active Projects" folder that then contains a folder for each ongoing project. To compensate for the two-level nesting, I also have a saved search folder called "Recent Active Projects" that returns all the contents of those folders from the past few days, sorted chronologically. This is the fast way to find yesterday's email without drilling down through the project folders. This setup means there's no excuse for leaving an email in the Inbox once I've either acted on it or determined that it doesn't require action. Any reference material gets sent to its project folder or to another non-project archive as quickly as possible. All completed project folders get sent to a "Project Archive" folder. I hate digging through the Sent folder, so I have another saved search folder that tracks my sent mail for the past three days, and another few client-specific saved searches. » POSTED IN:
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