and yeah, holyspidoo: using the comment field seems like a good idea. Winamp allows you to search by comment in the 'smart view' thing, and I guess WMP and iTunes do a similar thing.

Last.fm has a tagging feature pretty much identical to what you suggest. But I guess what you want is a local, not global, solution. Seems like a good idea...

My contact details are available to anyone in my company who really _needs_ to get hold of me, so I don't need to use autoreply. I see email as an asynchronous communication method - if you need the answer _now_, then ring me or see me face-to-face.

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burepe, I use this link as a bookmarklet (with the 'here' keyword, i.e. "here cookies") that does exactly the thing you are describing. It's really useful!

I'll throw in another vote for Exifer, though it does have a LOT of features, and there's a fair bit of clicking involved to actually do something useful. My favourite app for adding IPTC tags (which are recognised by Flickr) is IrfanView. Just press I twice in any image to edit the title/description/keywords fields.…

Altissima, I thought I'd invented the ^n shorthand! :) That saves a lot of letters.

I don't see the point. I just leave everything in my inbox. It takes effort to archive stuff (even if it is just one keypress) and makes no difference - I can still find stuff.

Or the dev/shell and dev/jsenv bookmarklets at squarefree? I find them extraordinarily useful, and they might even work with IE.

Agree with ahoier - I just have a keyword search set up (pointing to the Google site search) and I can just type "wp connecticut" or whatever in Firefox's address bar. Yay keyword searches!

Jesse's Bookmarklets is a useful bookmarklet resource. This is great though - thanks!

I would love to access my work email from Gmail - the interface is just so much better than Outlook's, with threaded conversations and labels. Is there a good way to do this? I tried using a rule in Outlook to automatically forward my emails, but they all appeared as 'Fwd: subject' rather than 'subject', which I…