The Bottom Line
Pros
- LinkABoo lets you create links to individual messages in Mac OS X Mail
- You can open LinkABoo links from any application including calendars, organizers and browsers
- LinkABoo works no matter how you access your email in Mail (POP, IMAP or .Mac)
Cons
- It can take LinkABoo some time to find moved mail
- Alternative ways to create LinkABoo links might be nice
- Messages with large attachments make LinkABoo think for noticeably long
Description
- LinkABoo creates links to individual Mac OS X Mail email messages.
- Links from LinkABoo can be used anywhere in Mac OS X, even in browsers and other emails just like links to web sites.
- LinkABoo works with any mail account supported by Mail.
- You can move messages freely in Mac OS X Mail and LinkABoo will still find them.
- LinkABoo supports Mac OS X 10.4.
Guide Review - LinkABoo 1.0 - Mac OS X Mail Add-On
Need to get back to an email... after you have completed another task (which, it turns out, requires you to refer to another email)? Mac OS X Mail may have many a talent, but it is no calendar or organizer.Your organizer helps you get things done and emails answered, but it does not know of these emails. So you resort to either keeping everything in your Inbox relying on your eagle eyes and your hand's intuitive scrolling knowledge to spot the right message at the right time? Or do you employ Spotlight searches, which typically involves quite a bit of typing and manual screening?
LinkABoo lets you create much shorter paths between, well, just about anywhere and an individual email in Mac OS X Mail. LinkABoo links work like links to web sites. You can place them on your Desktop, of course, or in the Dock, but you can also use them in a calendar program or organizer. LinkABoo links go straight to any message from your browser, too, and you can place links to emails in other emails — drafts, for example.
Creating a link is easy in LinkABoo: highlight the desired message in Mail and launch LinkABoo. You can then either drag and drop a link or copy it to your clipboard, whence it is swiftly pasted. Still, alternative ways to get links — say, right from within Mail — might appeal to some that don't want another icon in their Dock. Once a link is in place, it just works.
LinkABoo does not care how you retrieve your mail (it works with POP, IMAP and .Mac accounts equally well) or where you move it. If you file messages or particularly if you permanently delete linked emails, you can send LinkABoo spinning for a couple of minutes, though. Once LinkABoo has re-established the link, the same message opens again swiftly.
