Your reply and Diane's are very interesting.  These are ways of using the
email client that never crossed my mind.  It's good to have a community!

Mr. Tea's approach could be extended to address what I have felt is a
long-standing problem with email clients.  Filing emails in mailboxes is a
drag <grin> because you can only have an email in one box (without a
significant fiddle).  But we don't file for its own sake;  the point is to
aid retrieval by speeding up browsing and  searching.  With our superfast
(pre-indexed) searches via Spotlight, we can dispense with filing and
replace most browsing with searching, because we don't need to narrow the
search by mailbox.  Google Mail points the way for this approach. (Of
course, YMMV.)

But often emails don't have the correct search terms in their text.  What
I'd like to do is "tag" the emails (as one does at del.icio.us for
bookmarks), then search on text _and_ tags.

It never occurred to me until reading your note that I could just edit the
text of the incomings to include tag terms!  Wah-la!

Thanks for your response.

-- Joshua



On 4/7/06 3:02 AM, "Mr Tea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This from Joshua Yeidel - dated 7/4/06 01.22:
> 
>> Why would anyone want to edit an incoming mail?
> 
> Subject lines are sometimes less than informative (e.g. "Your Invoice #
> 9033413804"). When this is the case I often alter the subject line to avoid
> guesswork when trying to relocate the message (in this case, to "iPod Nano
> invoice).
> 
> Fair enough?
> 
> 
> Nick
> pp Mr Tea

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