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MacFixIt - Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0b1 released: Universal Binary, message tags, more

Thunderbird 2 is n beta now - and it was one feature that is very interesting: tags.

Tagging has become quite the hot thing on the social web and Web 2.0 scene.

Tagging is a powerful tool for associating keywords with items stored in a data set.

Combined with other features like smart folders (dynamically updated saved searches) it makes for a really powerful yet simple way to organize email.

Another neat thing about this is that Gmail also allows tagging, with a limited number of different tags, alas. Thunderbird should have no problem accommodating all the ones a Gmail user has, though.

It will probably require writing a Thunderbird addon to read the tags, though.

Here is part of an announcement today of the new tagging feature in Thunderbird.

MacFixIt - Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0b1 released: Universal Binary, message tags, more:

Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.

I wonder how this can be used with RSS items in Thunderbird?

By the way, the notice I saw was for the Mac version, which is why I posted here. I assume the PC version is out too and that it has the same feature set.

posted by John Collins @ 1:58 PM