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August 16, 2007

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Get Smart Mailboxes

Posted Aug. 16, ’07, 12:11 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Tips

Smart MailboxesI’m like the polar opposite of productivity guru Merlin Mann. For example, he’s got his “Inbox Zero” methodology; I’m currently working on “Inbox Ten Thousand Nine Hundred and One.” He is beloved by thousands upon thousands of Internet readers; sometimes I even get a birthday card from my mom.

Still, I admire his chutzpah, and whenever I want to daydream about what it would be like if I were “getting things done,” as the kids say, it’s to his excellent resources that I invariably turn.

All of that is prelude to point you towards an excellent write-up on Merlin’s 43 Folders on how to harness the power of Mail.app’s Smart Mailboxes to make your email management not just more organized but, heck, more enjoyable.

And since I know that my overloaded Inbox makes Merlin cry himself to sleep every alternate Tuesday, I promise that I’m putting an item in my action list right now to clean up my mailbox. Or, well, I would. If I could find my action list. Blast.


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