Vox Populi: How are you using Mail Tags?
Submitted by Merlin on October 18, 2006 - 8:26am.
I open the floor to all of you on a question of particular personal interest to me: How are you using Mail Tags?
While my uses of it to date have been helpful, I keep getting the feeling I’m not getting all that I can out of it – especially since the ability to associate Projects, Priorities, etc. to a message could make for some really enticing Smart Folders.
I wonder if my question is ultimately more taxonomic in nature – ultimately more about Spotlight in general or Tags in very very general: When tagging items on your Mac, what kind of ‘-onomy’ are you using? How strictly do you enforce your vocabulary? What are the best practices for someone who’s new to this?
Confidential to Mr. Thomas Vander Wal: if you turn up here and school me a bit on this, I’ll totally buy you a Coke. If you write a guest post on it, I’ll buy you a beefsteak and two cocktails. Seriously. Steak.
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I'm a grad student, so...
I’m a grad student, so I have a tag for the classes that I TA, tags for the classes that I take, and a tag for each of my research projects. I then make smart folders based off the tag, so its very simple to search through the different subjects. Everything else remains untagged, though I do have more Smart Folders that are based on subject line, like for Calls for Papers.