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Thursday 26 January 2012

Annotate Gmail Messages


Sometimes people forget to write descriptive subjects when they send mail. Sometimes they just drop some files there and send a message with a blank body. And if the attached files have names like 1.doc, your chances to find that mail later are almost null. Unfortunately, Gmail doesn't have an annotation feature that would let you insert some comments in a mail you've just received. To make sure you'll find that messages, you could send a reply to yourself that contains a small description of the attachments.

It's a small compensation until Gmail has an option to search the contents of attachments.

1 comments:

db said...

You don't need to reply to annotate a message. This is how I do it:

Click reply to the message you want to add keywords to
Enter the keywords in the new message's body
Save as draft
Connect to Gmail using an IMAP-client
Using the IMAP-client, move the message from Drafts to the folder (label) where the original message is stored.

Now they are grouped together in a conversation with the same label (folder) and you can search for your keywords. And none of them is a draft that you might accidently edit or send.

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