Comments on: Colourise Mail.app messages for visual queues

By: Vaughan Magnusson

Vaughan Magnusson — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:41:11 +0000

I love the simplicity of this tip - something I can start using straight away. Cool how the keystroke is super similar to the send keystroke - so the fingers are ready to go without having to work too hard.

Much appreciated!

By: Whitney McBee

Whitney McBee — Sat, 20 May 2006 03:00:23 +0000

smorr! Your still in the around. Great! I hadn’t seen any post by you on the MailTags Trac for a while and I was afraid you had moved on. Just so you know I am one (of I sure many) MailTags users who rely on you to make Mail.app a great mail client.

“Wouldnâ€™t it be nice if MailTags could have colors associated with keywords, projects, due dates, priority etc, and that these could be adjusted via preferences (i.e. not having to assign a color to a message).

And they could be ordered so that things due today would automagically appear in red even if the project was regularly blue.”

YES! That would be great. You have me salivating.

I would also like to be able to create an Event (as well as the current To Do/Tasks) using MailTags.

Thanks for all your efforts.

By: Sigurdur Armannsson

Sigurdur Armannsson — Fri, 19 May 2006 14:44:25 +0000

Before I went over to MacOsX I had been using Eudora for years on Os9. I always missed the possibility to color my mail. Actually Thunderbird can do that â€“ using the keyboard too. Then one day I though of using the built in color palette. What a relief!

I wrote about this just over a month ago on my site http://font.is/?p=99, unfortunately it’s written in Icelandic, but you might want to look at the palette there. I use a much lighter colors for marking the mail as dark colors and very saturated tend to make it harder to read.

I always try to limit the number of mails I colorize. The only really bright color I use is yellow which I use for very urgent matters I have to do and when finished I make it white again.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:20:34 +0000

….also, to accommodate lazy or “over-committed” people like me, it would be very nice if MailTags has a separate colour for things that are overdue.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:17:06 +0000

Yes, Sir, that would be very nice. :)

By: smorr

smorr — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:04:46 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if MailTags could have colors associated with keywords, projects, duedates, priority etc, and that these could be adjusted via preferences (ie not having to assign a color to a message).

And they could be ordered so that things due today would automagically appear in red even if the project was regularly blue.

hmmmmm….