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For those who like Mail.app: MailTags has been around for years, and adds tags/labels, notes, and reminders to Mail.app. One of the nice things about MailTags i

For those who like Mail.app: MailTags has been around for years, and adds tags/labels, notes, and reminders to Mail.app. One of the nice things about MailTags is that it stores its information in a header in the e-mail on the IMAP[1][2] server. So, it does not funnel your mail through a server and the tags show up on all your Macs. http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html I thought it was worthwhile mentioning, since I hadn't seen this plugin until a few months ago. [1] This does not work with GMail, since it stores a new copy of the e-mail with the extra headers and then deletes the old one. GMail recognizes the new copy as a duplicate and never stores it. [2] I am not sure if they take any security precautions, since a sender could add the header as well. Would be fun to try I guess :).

jwr 12y ago
I tried to use MailTags, tried really hard. But it never achieved its promise. First, tagging E-mail was just too much of a hassle, second, there were bugs and issues and I spent a lot of time with support to try to resolve those, and third, there just wasn't that much utility, especially given the speed of Mail.app's search window on SSD drives. I stopped using MailTags and never looked back, although the remains haunt me to this day (Spotlight complains about mail header problems). I would not recommend MailTags, unless you enjoy spending time tagging your E-mail and have some spare time for support conversations.
- danieldk 12y ago
  I am still on the fence. I like it generally and it's easy to tag quickly with shortcuts. It's Mail.app that bothers me, because its shortcuts are annoying (even with GMailinator) and IMO it's slow (even on SSDs). Now that there is a great mutt version that supports notmuch (mutt-kz) I might abandon Mail.app. But for now, MailTags keeps it bearable :).

jwr 12y ago

I tried to use MailTags, tried really hard. But it never achieved its promise. First, tagging E-mail was just too much of a hassle, second, there were bugs and issues and I spent a lot of time with support to try to resolve those, and third, there just wasn't that much utility, especially given the speed of Mail.app's search window on SSD drives. I stopped using MailTags and never looked back, although the remains haunt me to this day (Spotlight complains about mail header problems). I would not recommend MailTags, unless you enjoy spending time tagging your E-mail and have some spare time for support conversations.

danieldk 12y ago
I am still on the fence. I like it generally and it's easy to tag quickly with shortcuts. It's Mail.app that bothers me, because its shortcuts are annoying (even with GMailinator) and IMO it's slow (even on SSDs). Now that there is a great mutt version that supports notmuch (mutt-kz) I might abandon Mail.app. But for now, MailTags keeps it bearable :).