![]() If Notes were part of Sync Services – so they could sync with mobile devices – and Notes were also available in iCal, then the system would work as a whole. Useless.īasically the whole idea seems rather half-baked. What’s more, the only way to use Mail to view the Notes field for a To-Do (which, if you store your GTD projects as To-Dos, can be several pages long) is via a Notes column in the To-Do list, which shows you about 100 characters at most. Mail’s Notes and To-Dos don’t even sync with the iPhone (hell, the current iPhone doesn’t even have To-Dos). However, Mail’s Notes don’t sync with the Palm via Missing Sync (Apple’s fault, not Mark/Space’s), so there goes that idea (I use my Palm for GTD all the time). This is great if you’re a Getting Things Done fan like me in fact, here’s an impressive (if daunting) GTD workflow built around Leopard’s Mail and iCal. ![]() One good thing is that the To-Dos in Mail are the same as the ones in iCal what’s more, you can create a To-Do that’s linked to a mail message, and then recall the attached message either in Mail or in iCal: Notes would surely be better as either part of iCal, or as a separate app, replacing Stickies. I’m happy that Apple finally included a decent notes feature in Mac OS X, but what on earth are Notes and To-Dos doing in Mail? To-Dos are already in iCal. New Mail features include the ability to create Notes and To-Do items, decorate mail messages with stationery, and read RSS feeds with an integrated RSS reader. Secondly, the new Mail is buggier than the Mail in Tiger. Firstly, the new features in Mail are, on the whole, fairly useless (for me). (This, along with the improvements to Spotlight itself and the new Quick Look, all help me work faster and get more done with my Mac, which is wonderful.) In addition, the Mail interface, like the Finder’s, generally seems more responsive than it did in Tiger: windows pop open with no delay, messages render quickly, folders instantly snap open. Previously this would have taken over a minute. I managed to search my entire mail account – some 60,000 messages weighing in at just under 2GB – in around 10 seconds. Searching is now lightning fast, thanks no doubt to the improvements to Spotlight. In many ways, Mail is one step forward, two steps back.įirst, the good news. Now that I have my hands on the new Mail, I am still distinctly nonplussed. When I watched the keynote introducing Leopard a couple of years back, I remember being distinctly nonplussed by the “improvements” to Mail. In this multi-part review I’ll be concentrating on three of the main ones: Mail, iCal, and Preview. ![]() Along with all of its 300 spiffy new features, many of the bundled Apple applications have had a makeover with the release of Leopard.
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