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Vox Populi: How are you using Mail Tags?
Merlin Mann | Oct 18 2006
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. 27 Comments
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 @sits email messages generally have a...Submitted by Smorr (not verified) on October 18, 2006 - 2:32pm.
@sits email messages generally have a message-id: header. MailTags has been set to recognize message://xyz requests where xyz is the unique id. This way, you can set the url in an app (say ical) to point to message://xyz and you can link directly back to the message. Also Public beta 3 of MailTags 2.0 (which is due out momentarily -- sooner if I don't write comments) has apple script support. So now applescript workflows (such as kGTD) can be modified to also pull the project, keywords, priority and due dates set in MailTags. (and it will write them too) » POSTED IN:
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