Taglocity review
Review Taglocity is a plugin for Outlook 2003/2007 that offers the same idea as tags on blogs (like on the right) but for email. Now, this isn’t really anything special for Outlook, as you can get basically the same ability using flags. There are three really good features in it, though, which help it stand out above just flags:
There is a tag cloud view at the bottom of Outlook. This is great since you can have easy access to more tags than you can with flags. However, it appears either as a floating window (annoying) or docked (better), but in either mode, you can’t choose what windows it should show on—so it shows up everywhere. I’m a power calendar user and really don’t need to lose space to tags in an area where I won’t use them.
Next is the auto-tag feature, which uses Bayes to predict what tag should be applied to each email. This is a great idea, but not well implemented. Firstly, when I get to the office in the morning, I generally receive about 30 emails, which causes Outlook to lock up for 1–2 minutes while it auto-tags. It also doesn’t auto-tag blog posts. And in the end, it seems to either want to tag everything or tag nothing—maybe that’s because I deal across a lot of different subjects with different tags, making it harder, but it really shouldn’t be this way.
Lastly is the find feature, which lets you do proper boolean expression searches based on tags—really useful since the results are almost instant. The downside is that it’s limited to the current folder, with no way to search all folders.
Anyway, after using the professional trial for 14 days, it expired, and I now have the option to purchase or drop to the personal edition. The personal edition has a tag cap, which is a problem since I do need a lot of tags. Based on the negative points in the main features, I can’t agree to pay for it. So in the end, it’ll go the way of the dodo and be uninstalled.