Magic pen changed my life!

[jack]

I've recently made a bit of an effort to become organised, to augment my (A) being getting up at 9.00ish[1], (B) wasting less or indeed no time at work (C) slowly achieving my todo list[2] (D) thinking about where my life should go[3] (E) spodding hopefully more interestingly and (F) the aforementioned personality transplant :)

Fear my being a man now, my son! :)

I've redone my email folders a bit, so they're more hierarchical, and separated out the pooh and tolkien folders into 'chat' and 'committee' and 'announcements'. nakedtoes and sonicdrift can be squeeful and flattered that they've joined the elect club of people who have a folder of their own[4] :) Tim and Justin *would* but since *most* of the emails from one are also to the other, they are for the moment still co-existing in "timjustin" though for some equality I reversed the order.

I do, in fact, want email with categories, so something can be in both 'tim' AND 'justin'. It'd also be useful for emails from Foo AND poohsoc, or from Foo AND about house-finding, or whatever. But I like having IMAP. Can anyone advise me what system I should be using? Ideally I'd like email available from a server by both imap and webmail, and sortable into categories. I won't go much further, since I think that's still currently unacheivable. Gmail? Any other service? Download to outlook? Write an imap wrapper for gmail?

I've bought a shiny USB pen drive thingy[5] and moved all my personal files from home and work onto it. It's great having my todo list there where-ever I go, which has been a sticking point in my having one before. I've also reorganises a bit so I can find stuff; now my main personal folders are: fic_mine; fic_other's; gakked (quotes, downloaded pics, etc.); life (finance, etc.); poetry (not large, but enough to clutter up spod); pooh (mainly minutes); roleplaying; tech (stored settings, encrypted passwords, etc); spod (partially finished posts, articles, emails, poetry (but not any more), thoughts, plans, todos, etc).

[1] Today I woke up at 8.50 and got up without prompting by alarm, but I was *that* sanguine about going to work :) Yesterday I did some geek shopping first (see para 3) and woke up at 8.00, like I do at Xmas :)
[2] Bike very soon, promise. And shortly car, maybe.
[3] I think for satisfaction I need to acheived something, but aren't sure if this should be 'well paid job' or 'family' or something more innovative.
[4] Later I'm going to spod an amusing list of pseudo-definitions of friends, of which this is one :)
[5] There was one that was a wireless connector AND a pen drive. Isn't that so cool? If not useful to me :)

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

opera's mail system does pop, don't know about imap, and it does 'labels' (and did before gmail). but whether it's what you'd want to use ... oh, and opera is not free, like a death row prisoner or a battery hen, and you would feel evil using it. personally, I like it. and I eat chicken. but not death row prisoners. although there's no reason why we might as well not, really. unless their families mind.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I may investigate. I would be willing to pay for something that *did* do everything I wanted.

It seems pessimistic that I could have a system that uses labels with a client AND webmail, maybe I need give up on that.

Though come to think of it, it'd just be a matter of grepping for a keword in the header, it *should* be easy to implement, right? :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

oh, it's free in that sense, just not in the open-source sense. except for the ads at the top, though there possibly are ways of working around those. so you can at least investigate it without paying, and decide in a few months if it's cool enough to pay for.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, ok! I assumed they'd changed something since I last used it. I'll see what it can do, it sounds like it might be a solution.

Or, come to think of it, thunderbird must do it by now, mustn't it? That *would* solve everything, wouldn't it?