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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.

It would make inbox management a breeze, as just once a day, I'd look through my emails, make sure I'd responded/taken action on various things, and then file them.

Does anyone know of some way to get the same thing under Mail.app? I don't need anything real fancy. It looked like Mail Tags was a little too busy, and didn't readily notice anything on filing messages or threads.

Thanks! Ken

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Re: Easy Mail.app sorting

Ken - you should run office in a virtual PC on your Mac so that you can still use ClearContext! Of course I'm biased...

 
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