Glenn Wolsey has listed six hot tips for organising your email life to make it more efficient and productive.

Some of them will be familiar to Hawk Wings readers like how the delete key is your best friend and reducing the frequency of your email checks.

Others are more controversial – tagging or folders or a mixed marriage? Glenn is a folders man.

Still, whatever your personal faith position on these matters, reading how someone else does it often leads to new insights into how to do it better yourself. For instance, check out Glenn’s three folder strategy. Interesting.

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Eric Meyer is in a bind. He likes (and hates) enough things about both Thunderbird and Mail.app that he doesn’t really feel at home in either.

In a thoughtful post he compares the strengths of the two.

Smart folders are a plus for Mail, but Thunderbird’s superior options for navigating mailboxes with the keyboard leave Mail.app in the dust.

In conclusion he wonders:

Mail seems a lot snappier than Thunderbird, that’s for sure. But it has enough limitations for someone like me that I don’t think I can stick with it. I’m probably not part of its target audience.

It’s that perception, hard to dispell, that Mail.app is for grandmas or n00bs or those-who-don’t-know-any-better or top-posters or [insert favourite disparaging class description here].mail.app, apple mail, thunderbird, email, smart folders, keyboard shortcuts, switching

Dmitri Popov has written a useful little tutorial on “using Thunderbird like a Pro” at NewsForge.

If you are into that sort of thing, you will find there a quick explanation of how to make smarter use of smart folders, an introduction to some useful extensions and details on setting up turning Thunderbird into a “collaboration tool” with the Calendar and SynKolab extensions.thunderbird, smart folders, extensions, calendar, synkolab, collaboration, email

I’ve been a happy user of StickyBrain , an information manager, as long as I have used a Mac.

When Bare Bones Software launched their new information manager, Yojimbo, last week I decided to give it a go.

I’ve been using it a lot and I like it.

If you are interested in information managers and organising yourself (“productivity”), you can read the full review after the jump.

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Last October, Joe Kissell (author of Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger), wrote a piece for MacWorld on smart mailboxes and how to use them.

Now he widens the scope with an online article at MacWorld on smart folders and Spotlight searches.

Among other things, he shows you how to create a raw query for a smart folder that will find all the Mail.app messages and Word documents on your computer which contain a particular Spotlight comment. Very useful. Very smart.