Comments on: Email Tags

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:49:37 +0000

Check out this site…
http://eric.torvinen.net/google-mail-tags.php

it helps if you have a gmail account.

By: Adam Gershenbaum

Adam Gershenbaum — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:39:44 +0000

@Joseph-

I am patiently waiting and hoping on an invite from http://www.xobni.com

Have you been able to use that?

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:35:47 +0000

@Adam -

Well, at least there are a few options out there now. I’m not sure that they work very well with each other though. There really needs to be a simple email tags spec so that things work as expected.

By: Adam Gershenbaum

Adam Gershenbaum — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:05:22 +0000

I was just driving home from work tonight and twittered this exact question!

By: Greg Nelson

Greg Nelson — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:17:09 +0000

Taglocity (www.taglocity.com) has a free/commercial Outlook Add-In for tagging. It has some really nice features such as a tag cloud, Bayesian learning for auto-tagging, tag renaming, etc.

I have been testing interoperability between TB’s tagging feature and the Taglocity plugin, and found a somewhat annoying compatibility issue:

TB stores its tags in the “Tags” element of the header, while
Taglocity uses the “Keywords” element! Meaning, of course, that tags aren’t cross-recognized on the two platforms.

Anyone know a fix for this?

By: Danny Michel

Danny Michel — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:12:54 +0000

This sounds like a great idea.
I would love to have this as a plugin feature on outlook./
Hey maybe you can even go open source with it and so something for Thunderbird just to get the idea popular.

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:03:02 +0000

Mark’s idea of using Categories (from the preview pane, highlight the email or emails you want to tag and choose Edit-Categories and assign the Category). You can then sort or search for the messages by Category. I had no idea to try this, but Mark is my hero!

By: Bo

Bo — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:35:31 +0000

Kim and Some guy, thanks.
Kim, I would like to hear more (learn more).
My very limited “tagging” experience is the http://www.stikkits.com

By: Some guy

Some guy — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:53:48 +0000

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/1832/ Tag the Bird extension for Thunderbird adds tagging in an X-Tags header. The extension itself lacks a few features, but overall seems to work well enough for me at the moment. Easy tag adding and editing.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:57:27 +0000

Wow, this is so awesome! I am a soon to be graduate in Information Technology and I have been tossing this email and file tagging/labeling/keywording idea around since I started designing databases in Access almost ten years ago. Databases make indexing and searching a natural way of life to support views and queries, and I thought to myself, “Well, why don’t they make that for files and emails?” Just keep them all in one place (like a table, not in silly folders) and have searches (views or queries) to filter out the files/emails you need with whatever subject or keywords at any given point in time. Then you don’t have to worry where you’re filing crap – or file it at all! My over 10,000 emails at home could use such a system.

I was so happy when I found out GMail and Vista support it. Filing in file folders is thinking in PHYSICAL concepts! It’s about time we thought electronically!

So there’s my two cents. Sorry I can’t contribute to your project personally, but I thank everyone involved…if it’s still going on…