MailTags for Leopard: Public Beta
MailTags, the prince of Mail.app plugins, is now available in a Leopard-friendly public beta.
Scott outlines in a post on his web site 
how MailTags retains its productivity edge for Leopard Mail users. Although Leopard Mail includes notes and to-dos, MailTags still does it better. Its notes are smarter, its to-dos more flexible and its project features unmatched.
For example, tagging emails and RSS feeds with the same MailTags project makes it possible to see both sorts of data in one hit in Mail’s search window.
A list of Leopard Mail’s abilities without and with MailTags makes the advantages clear:
The beta has been hassle-free for me since upgrading to Leopard last Friday. Now in its fifth version, most of the kinks have been ironed out by Scott’s squad of beta-test commandos. MailTags to-dos don’t work for the moment, neither does the option to “view the originating message”. But they will.
Download and enjoy.
It’s all good for me, but heed Scott’s warning nonetheless: “We strongly recommend you maintain backups of your mail data or avoid using MailTags in critical situations.”
Tags: mail.app apple mail, mailtags, Notes, plugins, Productivity, projects, public beta, to dosRelated posts
October 31st, 2007 at 1:58 am
Small correction: Mail 3.0 does have message notes:
Right-click into a message and select “Add note” in the context popup.
Done.
October 31st, 2007 at 2:22 am
What am I missing that I don’t see this “Add Note” context option?
October 31st, 2007 at 3:22 am
I am missing this as well. And I have combed the menus and context menus etc etc looking for this –
I wanted to be careful to not misrepresent any functionality.
I know something was like it in earlier leopard builds but nothing in recent builds so I think that the either the feature was dropped, or what we saw in earlier builds was inadvertent (unintended) behaviour.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:40 am
I think that Stefan is confusing Message notes with integrated To-Dos, which you can get via the context menu in a message. Pretty neat functionality, but it would be nice to have notes that aren’t added to the global ToDo list.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:45 am
Ok, I was hopeful for a moment there. ;) Has anyone figured out how to hide completed todos from Mail? I am sorely in need of that, my list is immensely long but I don’t want to delete the todos forever.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:27 am
Deleting completed todos from Mail 3.0 (or hiding them — hmmmm sounds like a plugin is needed….. (but gotta get MAO and MT done first!)
October 31st, 2007 at 11:51 am
@Stan: I don’t see it either, and in any case Leopard Mail’s notes are just general notes, not notes on specific emails that (smarter) way MailTags does them.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:00 pm
This MailTags beta is quite flaky. I would highly recommend avoiding it. Problems I’m seeing:
- It’s not showing any keywords or projects I previously added to my IMAP messages
- The Keywords dropdown only showed one of the dozen or so keywords I had defined (and which were still visible in the preference pane). Adding a new keyword to the dropdown caused all my other keywords to be completely forgotten (i.e. no longer listed in the pref pane). GRRR!
- The pref pane was showing old Projects that I had deleted weeks ago; it didn’t include any of my recent projects. Any attempts to change the list of Projects does not stick.
I’ve uninstalled this, and now must revert to a backup ca.indev.MailTags.plist file, since this beta version trashed my working copy.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Hi Eric.
I’m sorry to read your story. I have had none of the problems you mention. In fact, the Leopard beta is running more smoothly on my machine than previous betas did under Tiger, perhaps because the archive and install cleared away some of the system hacks and tweaks.
Tim
November 1st, 2007 at 5:50 am
Tim, I did an upgrade install; I wonder if that’s part of the reason for my problems.
I posted my problems on the Leopard Beta indev.ca forum thread; let’s see what Scott says.
-Eric
November 1st, 2007 at 7:54 am
Excellent. If anyone knows the answer, Scott does!
November 1st, 2007 at 10:29 am
According to the iGTD blog, Leopard mail supports URLs for individual messages without Mailtags installed.