Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

Tip 207

Organize Mail by Color Schemes

You might already know that you can “flag” email messages in the Mail app by right-clicking the mail’s entry in the list and selecting one of the colored flag icons. This can help you find the email in a hurry. However, you can also make each entry in the email list a particular color, and although doing so is easy, it’s far from obvious how.

Select a message in the list within Mail, and then hit Shift+Command+C to bring up the Colors palette. Then select a color you want. You can choose any color of the rainbow. Note that you won’t see the coloring until you select a different mail within the list.

To remove the coloring, again select the mail in the list and bring up the Color palette; then select the ...