Ever since I switched to Apple for my private computer I have been using Mail.app as mail-client of choice. Today though, I came upon two little features that solved two big problems.
1. Notes on my iPhone. Well, if you follow David Allen’s Getting Things Done method, everything has to go into inbox. And I have found myself at numerous times thinking, damn, there are still “unprocessed” notes on the iPhone, wondering how that could be solved. Turns out it is easy. In the left column in Mail is a header called “reminders”/”erinnerungen”. I clicked the arrow sign to expand it and – oh wonder – there were the notes I wrote on the iPhone and even better, I can edit or delete them in Mail. Awesome catch.
2. I used to use zaptxt to get immediate IM or Mail notifications for a select few RSS feeds. However, zaptxt kind of seized to work, so I was stuck. A look over the shoulder of a coworker let me catch the RSS-function of Mail, a feature I had opted not to display because I use Google Reader to manage my feeds. My usual workday involves using Mail a lot when not in deep-thought mode, thus making it an ideal place to find the updates on the must-read feeds. Again, easy as pie but a very effective addition to the system.