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The new Mail.app in Leopard has come out of it’s childhood and into adolescence. Even with just using it for 3 days now, I am noticing a huge difference in my productivity.
I’ve touched on a few things I really enjoyed about Mail.app in a previous post on Leopard. But after some further use and fiddling around in the program my enjoyment of it has increased ten-fold.
E-mail: This system hasn’t changed much. Aside from stationary and a photo browser. But why change something that already works great.
Notes: I haven’t stopped using this feature of Mail.app. The ability to quickly jot down notes and send them to people. Organize thoughts for an event. Or just plain right jot down notes from a meeting. This was one feature that Apple could have botched up bad, but they seemed to have made a great simple add-on.
To-Do’s: While this feature isn’t new to the Mac OS, it is new in Mail.app. There are a couple of ways to input a to-do. One way is to simply go to the “To-Do” tab and make a new to-do. The other is if someone sends you an email and they need you to do specific things, you can right click on the email and select “New To-Do”. This will create a new to-do within the email and add it to your list of to-do’s.
RSS: The addition of RSS feeds into Mail.app is a very useful addition to the program. Since you already use the app. to read e-mails, why not have it as your RSS reader as well? The layout of the feeds is exactly the same as the email part and is very similar as well to NetNewsWire. You can organize the feeds into folders for easier organization. Change how long it takes for Mail.app to update the feeds, etc. A strong, simple addition that I find very useful.
To be honest, these additions in mail have taken me to the point of deleting my GTD apps. from my computer. I have vouched for the simpler method, the minimalist method of GTD with the new mail. Sorry OmniFocus, but your gone.
Technorati Tags: Apple, OS X 10.5, Mail.app, Productivity
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