Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Ongoing Organization: Gmail Filters

Published
by
Matthew
on June 23, 2008
in Internet and Organization
. 0 Comments

labels.pngI’ve been really interested in organizing all my email messages. But I don’t really want to go through every single message to do that. Today I tried to make some filters in Gmail to at least get some general organization.

First I attempted to get all money related emails into one place.
To do this I looked for all the email addresses of my banks, student loans, online buying/selling, that kind of stuff. At first I was getting every address, but I realized it would be much faster to grab whole domains. So this is what I did.
from:(@cems.wamu.com OR @ebay.com OR @amazon.com OR @wellsfargo.com OR @mint.com OR @checkout.google.com OR @paypal.com OR billing@dreamhost.com)

Then I wanted to try and organize emails with attachments by file type.

For images
Has the words:(.jpg OR .jpeg OR .gif OR .png) has:attachment

For media
Has the words:(.avi OR .mov OR .mp3 OR .m4a) has:attachment
For documents
Has the words:(.pdf OR .doc OR .docx OR .xls OR .xlsx OR .ppt OR .pptx OR .oo3) has:attachment

For design
Has the words:(.ai OR .psd OR .indd OR .qxd) has:attachment

The one problem that I’ve run into so far with this is with PDFs. About half of the pdf emails are related design. This is also a problem with Fireworks PNGs.

This is by no means complete. It is only a quick stab at email organization. Hence “ongoing.” If you have any ideas on how to improve this or any filters you’ve set up that work well, comment.

I helped

Published
by
Matthew
on June 17, 2008
in Internet
. 1 Comment

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Apple ♥ Enterprise

Published
by
Matthew
on June 9, 2008
in Internet
. 1 Comment

promo_iphone_enterprise_20080609.jpg“For the first time, OS X includes native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into organizations of any size.” - Snow Leopard Press Release (Taken down since I started this post.)

“It supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, delivering push email, calendar, and contacts. And it gives mobile users secure access to corporate resources with Cisco IPSec VPN and wireless network services with WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1X authentication.” - iPhone Product Page

I bought this

Published
by
Matthew
on June 6, 2008
in Photo
. 1 Comment

This guy just made my work life better in a big way.

  1. I can now listen to things on my computer at work.
  2. So far I’ve listened to a lot of This American Life.
  3. I had to catch up.
  4. Also, some of the Fists and Juice Team.
  5. I’m still waiting for someone to install iTunes.
  6. I don’t have the permissions.
  7. What else can I listen to that is streaming?
  8. Patrick sent me this song.
  9. Really good.
  10. Tomorrow is week 3 of being married.

3 things I learned about England

Published
by
Matthew
on June 3, 2008
in Beer and Rants
. 4 Comments
  1. England has no good beer.
    Period. We had an IPA that tasted like nothing. Worst than nothing. It was gross. And Cask Ales? BAH!
  2. England loves Gill Sans.
    Gill Sans is the Helvetica of England.
  3. England has very good Indian food.
    While there I had the best Dosa of my life.