And… this is important… if an email is left as “unread” then it is still awaiting (if uncategorised) or still under (if categorised) action. We have a system of marking emails with categories to show who has “picked up” the email for action. ![]() If your email is unimportant (so far) then I will only preview it.Īctually, the more common use of preview for me is we have a couple of shared mailboxes in my team - one for matters relating to production servers and one for non-production servers. I do leave read receipts on, but if anyone ever asks “did you get my email?” my response is generally “I’m sure I did, but I bet the question you really want the answer for is did I read it, or am I going to do anything about it?” A read receipt is tacit permission from me to follow up on it. In a corporation full of Outlook users, your type are not common. Everything else gets downloaded and moved onto a local folder (with tags if necessary). Once a certain email has been taken care of it gets archived and moved out of the inbox or its smartfolder.Īlso, I like “active” emails to be in my inbox so that they are accessible from my iOS devices too. Other than that, I always wish I would manage my workflow better, but I’m aware that anything I move out of my mailbox gets forgotten, just as things that I move off my physical desk. I really couldn’t manage without the tickle dates, keywords etc. (they’re working on an app, Mail for iOS wouldn’t allow plugins as such). ![]() I’m eagerly awaiting their iOS version, so that I can sync tags etc. Right now I keep e-mails that need some kind of action on my part in my inbox, but have a few smart boxes (such as “reimbursements”, “orders in transit”, etc., basically anything that require an action by somebody else) and I’m very happy with the Smallcubed plugins. ![]() But I have to say every now and then I did look at alternatives, they just weren’t convincing enough. I have been using Apple Mail ever since it appeared (I used Eudora before that time, if anybody remembers it) and never changed to anything else, lest I would lose mails, boxes, settings, you name it. I have to say I too have this constant feeling of having to manage things better with e-mail (mostly too many e-mails sitting in my inbox). Thanks for starting this topic and for reminding us of the possibilities.
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