Mo' Better Mail

The BeOS Tip of the Week has been running for over a year. There are 56 Tips now, including this one, and that's a lot to put in a single long list. So, as you might know, Tips from 1997 are archived onto a separate page, as will 1998's Tips when we reach the end of this year.

Just because a Tip has been moved to the Archives doesn't mean it's no longer useful. In fact, many of the Tips in the Archives are the best Tips. They were written first because they were the most useful.

Among the best Tips are the ones that explain how to use and manage e-mail more effectively under the BeOS. To prove that, this week's Tip is a list of the baker's dozen Tips which are, in one way or another, useful to using e-mail.

I suggest you read these in order, from the earliest to the latest, because many of these Tips, particularly the ones written close together, build on lessons from previous Tips.

• Tip 5: Reusing Your Queries
• Tip 6: Attributes for E-mail Folders
• Tip 7: Queries for E-mail
• Tip 8: Setting a Custom E-mail Status
• Tip 16: The Mailbox Shortcut
• Tip 17: More Mailbox Shortcuts
• Tip 18: Sorting List Views in the Tracker
• Tip 20: Finding Today's Mail
• Tip 23: BeMail's Secret Menu
• Tip 24: BeMail Signatures
• Tip 46: BeMail Keyboard Shortcuts
• Tip 54: Setting NetPositive's Helper Applications
• Tip 55: New Mail Alerts in Mail-It

Happy e-mailing!