Somehow mutt never dies or outlives its usefulness (see earlier Hawk Wings post, “mutt: A thing of beauty is a joy forever“).

At least, that’s the experience of the writer at dot unplanned .

Last week, he had one of those days on which Mail.app just refuses to behave:

Mail is just grinding and grinding and beachballing and gray-timering and I’m getting sick of it. Since most Mac mail apps suck, I usually end up on a primitivist kick, dusting off my old .muttrc and fixing things up a little and going in there to live.

As part of moving back in with mutt, he installed Alberto Bertogli’s X-Label scripts , which create custom headers that can store tags or metadata like MailTags or Gmail’s label feature.

Frank Barknecht likes Alberto’s scripts too. In fact, he has gone as far as adapting the X-Label script for Dave Allen’s “Getting Things Done” work management philosophy, and combining it with Kowey’s GTD/mutt macros to produce an elegant GTD solution with not a GUI in sight.

I take my hat off to these people. You can’t understand a word they write but, Golly, they are getting things done.