I spent some time figuring out a system to work my email traffic. Email for me is basically all communication I do, combined with some notes of phone calls.

Email have my tasks, my background info – it’s the core of the life in business

I always loved gmail’s way of labeling things. It was fast, easy and good searchable. The only think I disliked was the fact it was online. All the time.

Recently I switched back from using Mail combined with the power of MailTags to using Gmail. I have put my system back up, using quick links to save my searches (which I do for getting projects overviews of all the containing tasks) and using Fluid with a Apple’s mail icon to overcome my feeling of  ’always online’.

It’s working for me after  a period of not working MailTags (tags were not reminded correctly, searches didn’t go too well, lack of SL support and since it’s there – I would need to pay again to upgrade…) – I am quite happy.

What I do miss a lot though is setting a tickler date to emails. Some emails just need to be snoozed for a day or 2 or three or until a specific date… No luck on that one, but my hope is up!

If you know a way of snoozing or tickling dates with gmail, please let me know!

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