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date: 2013-10-27T23:12:55+00:00
aliases: organising-micro-task-emails-in-thunderbird
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- blog
- english
tags:
- email
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The title of this post sounds very significant but to be honest, it’s a small thing.
Everybody has her/his/its own workflow regarding emails. For example me: I LOVE folders! When it comes to the crunch I probably would be able to organise my whole life into folders.
Well, at least this is what I thought until I began my internship at [FSFE](https://fsfe.org/). I was used to a high income rate (do you say so?) before but something changed: Normally I read my emails and if something’s important, I open a new task in my taskmanager or simply write it down. In the office I also read lot’s of emails and can put them easily in folders via filters (in Thunderbird and with qmail/maildrop on my mailserver), for example emails in mailing lists.
But now it is more often the case that by reading those emails, there are beginning some mini-tasks: Commit this [translated](https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/) file on the server, answer these emails, send out that package to a [fellow](https://fsfe.org/fellowship/) (but not today, do it next Monday), and most importantly, book some restaurants for the General Assembly. You see, these are all small tasks, but they exist. In dozens. And I’m quite sure they will increase. But creating for each micro task a new task in my task manager ([Getting Things Gnome](http://gtgnome.net/) by the way) is overload as well.
For that I’m a forgetful technocrat sometimes, I wanted to pre-empt any mistakes and searched for methods to mark/tag those emails when reading them. Afterwards it should always be possible to find these marked/tagged with one click. In short, I needed a [Remembrall](http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Remembrall), that additionally tells me, what I exactly forgot.
Dear ladies and gentlemen, here’s my odyssey of finding the perfect method for me:
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Each method has its advantages. The tags are quite nice because you can differentiate between (own) tags and you can simply press the corresponding number on the keyboard to tag the mail. The marking method does not have such features but on my mobile (K-9 Mail) I cannot tag an email but only mark it. So I’m able to save some mails for later work when I’m sitting in the train for example.
No matter how you decide (I’m not quite sure as well what’s the best for me), it’s quite hard to find the emails if you have tagged them. Of course, if you look in the folder, you see colored mails or those with a star but to find them by hand in dozens of folder… good luck boy.
I already mentioned virtual folders: You can open a virtual folder that lists all emails that match a (or more) special criteria which you can define. If you untag/unmark an email, it just disappears from the virtual folder, but still exists in the (now untagged/unmarked) way as before.
{{< gallery >}}