In part 2 of our E-mail series we go in-depth on our various systems for managing email, the pros and cons of each system, developing a good email work flow, learning how avoid becoming a slave to your inbox, email etiquette and other useful tools. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to Episode 1 yet, you’ll probably want to listen to that for background before picking up Episode 2.
Links of note
Apple Mail Add-ons
Task Management
Other Tools
Other Resources
Joe Kissell’s TidBITS IMAP/POP Article
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Hey,
Just wanted to say I enjoyed the second part of your talk on email. I’ve constantly struggled with how to handle “to dos”. I generally left them in my Inbox until they were completed, but I loved the idea of having a “Take Action” inbox that I store all those in. I’ve started using this method, and then using “Things” to keep track if it’s something that will take me more than 5 mins to accomplish.
Great information.. keep it up!
Love the show so far. David – your system is identical to mine, except I use Mailtags to tag my mails as they come in, then create smart folders to keep track. One tagged, I dump them all into an archive as you do. My @action smart mailbox is then ‘clipped’ to Omnifocus.
Keep up the great work!
Andy Reed
I just listend to your first two podcasts. Great job! I have a question about aliases.
You talk about ways to send emil from different carriers (Comcast, Mobile Me, gMail, etc) with Apple’s Mail app. I don’t believe you mentioned you could also choose between your Mobile Me aliases. But my question is, is there a way on the iPhone to send a message from one of your Mobile Me aliases? It seems like you can’t choose either a different account or alias to reply with.
Related to this, I notice that in Mail app, when replying to an email the alias drop down does not always default to the alais from which it was it was received. Is there a setting I’ve missed to correct this?
Thanks for the helpful information!
A very interesting and informative podcast. Thanks!
One comment about sending mail from different aliases in Mail. I have three @mac.com aliases that I send mail from, but it drives me crazy that Mail insists on listing the @me.com version of those aliases. It just clutters up the accounts drop-down list with addresses I will never use.
Keep up the good work!
Hi, thanks for the podcasts. Please add a link for ‘mailplane’: http://mailplaneapp.com
Thank you, Jim