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I have started carrying a USB flash drive with me, back and forth to work, that has a TiddlyWiki loaded on it for tracking @Projects and my archives. I also loaded portable versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, to make life a little easier.

I was going to write a post about how excellent Thunderbird is for managing my Gmail accounts (since Gmail has no folders, blegh), but Katy at Flipping Heck beat me to it.

Check out what she has done with her Labels function:

Labels

Thunderbird allows you to apply labels (similar to Outlook flags as mentioned in Using Flags and Rules in Outlook) to emails. Unfortunately only one flag can be assigned to a message at a time (is that a problem or am I trying to be overly complicated?) but the labelled messages are easy to see if you have a full inbox (which you don’t of course, do you?)

To access the labels go to Tools > Options > Display > Labels (tab)

I have the following labels set up:

• Action
• Waiting For (more on @Waiting for)
• Defer
• Archive
• Delete

Unfortunately it would appear that 5 labels are the maximum you can have at the moment, but in terms of GTD this is enough. The only reason I could see you needing more is if you wanted specific project labels or one for personal messages, but then you could always get rid of the “Archive” and “Delete” options.

I’m not proud, I just set mine up in a similar way, and now I’m crankin’ out the widgets. Great post Katy!