I was about to http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html. A really awesome (it seems to me for now) plugin for Apple Mail that enables tags. But before that I wondered if I haven't missed anything and will regret spending the money. I'd love to use something that I know will be there in 10-20 years rather than pretty and trendy software products like Sparrow... as they all have the same fate - either aqcuired or abandoned.
I saw this the other day in the app store - http://www.handle.com/
Looks great! But I doubt it will exist in 2 years.
Mailbox seems good but it's owned by Dropbox and that makes me slightly uncomfortable.
But I still want something that looks good... and I also love tags/labels which are supported unfortunately only by Gmail and MailTags for Apple Mail.
So I don't know if I can switch to something like Mutt.<p>So what does HN use?
Like you, I've tried lots of different mail apps - Mailbox, Sparrow, Airmail. I've enjoyed using Thunderbird, Outlook, Mail. And I've used web interfaces for Gmail, Fastmail, Hotmail, etc.<p>In the end, which email client I've used has barely made any difference. The key is in processing the emails - forwarding to Evernote for reference, adding to Omnifocus if it's a todo item, replying quickly if I can, or deleting if it's irrelevant.<p>I found that extra features like tags and snooze just made me more disorganised, instead of less, as I spent more time fiddling with the features and wondering why something had gone wrong.
I don't use email client, I use gmail with two types on inbox (<a href="https://cloudup.com/cg0BjXIIg6P" rel="nofollow">https://cloudup.com/cg0BjXIIg6P</a>). I use only one type of start (blue info) to make things go my second inbox when I have no time for read or answer. Read this trick a long time ago on a blog post and really improve my gmail.<p>My unique problem with gmail is the android app but I think that since last release it's really better.<p>PS: always inbox zero, and have 4 emails going to my gmail account
I use Thunderbird and have filters for most things, even for myself. I have many e-mail addresses I use for different things.<p>In my gmail, I have folders and subfolders. I have a folder with my name, emails I sent to myself go there.<p>I use [<tag>] in subject so that they go to the proper subfolder in my folder, etc.<p>I use <a href="http://hnnotify.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hnnotify.com/</a> to get notifications when someone replies to my comments on Hacker News, by the way.