new software, but Scott Morrison has just released MailTags 1.2, which adds a whole bunch of useful features to both Apple Mail and iCal. Tim Gaden (of Hawk Wings) and Boris have more information.
Intuitively and having played around with it a bit I can see the utility of this, but I’m curious about things that others have found useful to do using MailTags. So – what would/do you use it to do?
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the other thing – CAN MailTags use my existing/default calendar? I can’t get it to do that – it wants to use a different one all the time.
I wish I had the time to write this up more completely but in a nutshell:
1- I have a controlled vocabulary of projects and such which I use system wide (directory hierarchy, mail project labels, rss feed groups, etc) (eventually these should all be centrally controlled in The Binder I keep talking about and which Scott is interested in pursuing) and I apply these to emails either automatically via a filter or manually.
2- an enormous amount of my emails are actionable things: to dos, tasks, milestones, events. MailTags allows me to send them all to iCal very easily. At the moment, MT only sets ToDos, but I discovered that dragging a todo in iCal to a day creates an event with the same info. w00t!
Just with those two simple usages my email and my todos are tamed extraordinarily.
But I am not normal. I juggle about 10 full-time jobs AND full-time availability. ;)
Cool, Boris, thanks.
I can definitely see the utility of it, but so far I’ve been limited by the fact that since it doesn’t seem to use my default “Home” calendar – I try to keep everything in one – I have trouble getting it to synch properly with my Treo. This is a major limiting factor in my usage.
Hi Mike,
you should beable to set a default calendar in the preferences. If you have no project set, it will use that default calendar, Otherwise it uses the calendar == project. (It will create a calendar if it is not there. I am thinking of a small release that will allow a setting to Not create a calendar, but use the default if the calendar doesn’t exist in iCal. I haven’t fully pondered that yet. but if the desire for it is out there, I can easily implement it.
Only one calendar? I bemoan the fact that iCal doesn’t allow me to group my calendars so i can have even more! ;)