5/6/2023 0 Comments Mailmate m3![]() ![]() Once I’ve taken care of unread messages, I can - when time allows - go through and do a better job of filing or acting on the flagged messages, then unflagging them. In combination with SaneBox, this system makes it easy for me to keep my inbox empty. These smart mailboxes are used as a negative criteria in so that if a message appears in one of them (conveniently gathered under a mailbox folder called they don’t show up in note, I use Spark as my mail client on iOS and its Smart Inbox follows the same philosophy. I have several other boxes that gather unimportant messages, messages that are automatically filed using other tools, and messages that Gmail makes redundant with its own label system. Once a message is read, if I don’t flag it, it disappears. It essentially contains only unread messages (matching certain criteria) and flagged messages. I don’t use my various accounts’ Inbox folders, but rather a single smart folder. ![]() A big part of my workflow is my “Pseudo Inbox Zero” setup, which I will describe briefly because that’s kind of a weird thing to say. MailMate’s Smart Folders deserve their own post, but suffice to say that they’re among the most flexible I’ve worked with. These label/keywords mappings have the same results as MailTags’ X-Header technique, allowing round-tripping of tags (though I haven’t experimented with the IMAP labels much as it doesn’t really apply in my current workflow). MailMate can create IMAP keywords for sent messages, also mapped in this preference pane. ![]() If you recall MailTags, you might know that it stored tags as X-Headers in the message source, allowing tags to be sent with messages. This allows your tagging system to be relevant from other Gmail-based clients as well. In MailMate, from the same Tags preference pane where icons are added, you can map tags to Gmail labels. It allows you to have messages in multiple “folders” at once, and easily modify where a message shows up. If you use Gmail, you know that it doesn’t use folders, but rather “labels” which serve as a form of tagging and modify the groups that messages are viewed in the same way a smart folder for a tag would. I’ll get to how I make those useful in a minute. Most of my tags are for filing purposes, such as “expense” (which gets a dollar sign) or “nvultra” (which gets a unicode □ character). These icons also make any tags you add to your toolbar look nicer, just showing an icon button instead of a full tag name. Once you have icons assigned to your common tags, you can look under the View->Columns menu and you’ll see two options for tags columns in the viewer, one that’s just Tags (the full words) and one that’s Tags with an icon next to it (just the icons). Icons are assigned from Preferences, in the Tags pane. One nice feature of MailMate tags is that you can assign unicode characters and emoji to represent any tag, then instead of having a full tags column in the message list, you can just have the icons show, allowing them to function as “flags” on the messages. You can also add toolbar buttons for tags using Message->Tag->Display in Toolbar. This can more easily be triggered using a shortcut key, which in my bindings (and I believe the default, at least with Gmail bindings) is just typing “t” with any message selected in the viewer. This offers you a list of all your existing tags, as well as an Edit Tags option that will open the tag bar in the message window. To edit tags on a message, use the Message->Tag submenu. You get to determine what these tags represent, how they’re applied, and how to use them to create your own workflow. Instead, MailMate aspires to be the most powerful, the most flexible, the most efficient, the most standards compliant, and the most secure email client.Īmong MailMate’s many features, it allows messages to be tagged with any words you want, just like any tagging system. MailMate is not the most widespread, the cheapest, or the greatest looking email client, but I also have no aspiration to MailMate ever being any of these. I’ve talked a bit about Bundles a couple of times before, so for now, let’s talk about one of my favorite topics: tagging.įirst, as an introduction to MailMate, my favorite email client on the Mac, I’ll refer to this paragraph that I love from MailMate’s about page: ![]() So instead, I’m going to focus on one small part. I’ve been considering a general “Why I love MailMate” post for some time now, but it keeps seeming like an overwhelming project. ![]()
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