Category Archives: Email

Welcome back, MailTags!

Posted on 2013/04/14 by

Last November, I uninstalled MailTags 3.1 because they significantly slowed down my Mac. About  1.5 months ago Scott from Indev mentioned the release of MailTags 3.2. I re-installed them and have not experienced any issues ever since. I enjoy MailTags … Continue reading →

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Managing email with SaneBox

Posted on 2013/04/06 by

SaneBox is a software which shifts email in and out of your Inbox depending on certain rules. Most directly, SaneBox filters less essential incoming emails into SaneNews and SaneLater mailboxes but it can also do other useful tasks. Let me start … Continue reading →

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Goodbye MailTags … and see you soon (?)

Posted on 2012/11/26 by

I enthusiastically used MailTags starting almost from the day I got my first Mac and until the last Friday. The reason I gave up was that my Mail.app has been choking on MailTags for the last several months. Working with email … Continue reading →

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Learning from Katie and David

Posted on 2012/10/20 by

I must admit that everything I know about Mac has either been directly learned or inspired by Macpowerusers (MPU), a podcast I started listening to about 3 years ago. Recently, MPU had their Episode 100 where they talked, among other things, … Continue reading →

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MailTags and OmniFocus Projects

Posted on 2012/09/19 by

MailTags is a great way to organize your Mail. It allows to tag each message with specific Keywords or assign it to one or several Projects as well as create reminders and notes associated with an email. The good news … Continue reading →

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Filing in a hurry: using message flags in Mail for ‘hot’ projects

Posted on 2012/07/11 by

I have recently started to use differently colored flags in Mail app. My past advice on email reflecting the GTD wisdom and the Inbox Zero principle was that an email message is either something which can be dealt with in less … Continue reading →

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E-mail discipline

Posted on 2012/04/07 by

In the past, I shared some email rules, habits, techniques and etiquette. What I did not mention was discipline, which is what gives rise to habits. Check this excellent entry on Applying Discipline to Email from  Simplicity Is Bliss. It suggests … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs’ lesson on email and job priorities

Posted on 2011/10/13 by

Among Steve Jobs’ lessons on the beauty of technology and the power of plain writing, one was captured by Lucy Kellaway about a year before his death. It’s on email etiquette and job priorities. Enjoy.

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Email wrap-up: habits, techniques and etiquette

Posted on 2011/07/31 by

Today is the last day of July and my last post on email re-casting the whole month of blogging in terms of habits, techniques and etiquette. The key email habits are limiting the time spent on email, yet seriously dealing with … Continue reading →

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Linking email to action: reference, calendars, to-do and reading lists

Posted on 2011/07/28 by

My email organizing sounds so surprisingly simple because I do not use email for managing any critical information, such as reminders, reading materials, or references. I try to spend as little time as possible working with email and still get … Continue reading →

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