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Mail.app seems built to punish us for not having inbox-zero. I hear a chime telling me new mail has arrived, but with a list of mailboxes that look like:
how can I possibly tell which one has new new mail, as opposed to the old new mail? Or better yet, is it possible to make an email's newness expire after a certain period? |
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Create a Smart Mailbox with "Message is Unread" and sort it by Date Received. I have this setup as my default mailbox for processing my email. I also have the Mail.app dock icon badge set to point to this Mailbox so I can see how much unread mail I have, though in your case this won't be an advantage. Pro Tip. Just mark all those messages as |
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When I used Mail, I had a lot of smart mailboxes, but one of the most used ones (and their main conditions) where: UNREAD (message is unread) TODAY (date received is TODAY) YESTERDAY (date received is YESTERDAY) WEEK (date received is within 7 days from now) MONTH (date received is within 30 days from now). FLAGGED (message is flagged) And every year, I’d create a (new) one like this: 2010 (message is received between 1/1/2010 and 31 dec 2010). 2009 (like 2010, but with the correct dates) etc. Those ones were inside a folder. It allowed me to group messages by year, because sometimes I needed a message that I got in 2008… Of course I’d add other conditions like not in spam/trash, etc. Sometimes you have to “nest” smartmailboxes. Like have one that is message is not in spam or thrash. And then a new smart mailbox that says: Message is not in + other conditions. The reasoning behind all this smartmailboxing is that once you start getting thousands of emails, searching in mail is not fast. For that reason I switched to Gmail, but that’s just my personal preference. |
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