The concept of Mail Perspectives is that Mail’s screen real estate gobbling window shouldn’t be open just because you want to read incoming messages.
#MAILTAGS REVIEW WINDOWS#
This plug-in allows you to minify your mail windows, adds a Mail Actions toolbar that can float above all other windows and applications, and lets you shift focus from the Inbox only to other mailboxes that you use more often. The last plug-in by Indev is Mail Perspectives. Whatever it is, even with an extra key to be hit on your keyboard, Mail’s routing system with Mail Act-On is a lot easier and more efficient than without. This could be my misunderstanding or it might be a bug. In fact, if you know Mail Act-On well enough, you can create rules that will set or remove MailTags tags on prior messages automatically.Ībout the only thing that I found confusing about Mail Act-On was that if I set a keystroke, Mail Act-On would only react when I keyed in the shortcut after having keyed in a groupage key for Act-On rules. Especially the latter are incredibly powerful for keeping together a thread so that Mail behaves much like Microsoft Outlook. Mail Act-On 2.x can be keystroke shortcut driven, but you can also set up special Act-On rules that don’t require a shortcut key, and outbound mail rules. This plug-in used to be a keystroke shortcut driven message router, but in its current version it’s much more than that. MailTags has a natural companion, which is Mail Act-On. Furthermore, MailTags allows you to set an independent message colour (text or background) and a Notes section that can be set as subject replacement. You can set up Smart mailboxes based on Tickler dates expiring - very handy to see what is due, and what is past due without having to set up an alarm in iCal.Įxcept for these two, MailTags is fully scriptable and has rules parameters of its own, so you can use MailTags based criteria to set up rules in Mail. This saves time, but also opens perspectives for faster task and project management than is possible with Mail and iCal or OmniFocus by themselves. When synchronisation has completed, you can tag a message with a project and then send it to OmniFocus with the project automatically set. This synchronisation process takes a bit of time - about 3 minutes - during which both applications must remain open.
OmniFocus can pull in messages with an OmniFocus shortcut key, while MailTags automatically pulls in project names from OmniFocus. Personally, I found MailTags’ synchronisation with OmniFocus a good feature.
#MAILTAGS REVIEW FOR MAC#
If you know that EagleFiler, a PIM, also supports OpenMeta tags, it becomes obvious MailTags is part of a very powerful management suite for Mac desktops. MailTags’ tags are immediately recognised by the program “Tags” which enables you to add OpenMeta metadata to any file on your Mac. Keeping multiple Mail windows open simultaneously It also allows you to create OpenMeta tags (the same sort of metadata as supported by Tags), organise messages using colours and priorities, as well as set projects, iCal events and two different types of tasks (one being the iCal task, the other being a tickler tasks that only exist in MailTags but that enable you to easily see how a due date expires). Starting with MailTags, this plug-in gives you direct access to iCal and OmniFocus synchronisation. The three together make up for a strong offering if you want Apple’s Mail to be as powerful - or even more - than Microsoft Outlook. Mail Perspectives is an evolved version of what used to be MiniMail, originally developed by another company. MailTags and Mail Act-On were what Indev, the Canadian developer, started out with. Suddenly Mail becomes a power instrument to manage your tasks, projects, and contacts. If you also want to literally get different views of your mail, you’ll also need Mail Perspectives by the same developer. To turn Apple’s Mail into a time and contact management system, all you need is a copy of MailTags and Mail Act-On by Indev.
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