01.12.10
Simplifying my mail management
Here’s a simple thing I did today that will save me some annoyance when dealing with new mail.
I manage my mail in Thunderbird by the simple rule of: if it’s something I need to respond to or reread soon, it stays in the inbox. If it’s junk, junk it, if it’s totally ephemeral, trash it, otherwise it goes to the ‘old’ folder. There are already keyboard shortcuts for junk and trash, but I was still dragging and dropping to put stuff in the old folder. Until I installed keyconfig (and yeah, that link is as close as there is to a project page for the thing, unless you count the author’s homepage). I then installed a script on O that says
MsgMoveMessage(“mailbox://nobody@Local%20Folders/old”)
No more drag-n-drop to manage my email. Nice.