Tagging of email messages and WebAide entries (i.e. contacts, calendar appointments, files, etc) with color-coded keyword and key phrase tags has been a feature of LuxSci for a long time.

However, the latest enhancements of LuxSci’s web interface make it even faster and more natural to tag and untag messages and entries:

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LuxSci has released several significant enhancements to its email and WebAides collaboration tools services that enable users to use “tags” more extensively to manage, categorize, and sort through their information.

For a long time, LuxSci has provided users with the ability to use tags to label and color code email messages, address books entries, documents, etc.  For details on LuxSci’s tag usage in general, see:

• Email Message Tagging  and Color Coding in WebMail
• Tag, you’re it! Productivity through tagging and color coding

Tags at LuxSci have been enhanced with the following features.

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Tagging items has become one of the hallmarks of modern web applications.  Delicious and FireFox allow you to tag your bookmarks, Facebook lets you tag people in photos. Flickr supports tagged pictures. Blogs permit you to tag your posts. The list goes on and on.

Tags are incredibly useful because they enable categorization of items in a dynamic and natural way.  Items can have multiple tags and you can make them up yourself as you go, so that they are meaningful to you and in the context in which you are working.

The odd thing is that tags are not yet very prevalent in most mainstream email programs (except perhaps Gmail) and collaboration tools like contacts, calendars, etc. This is where LuxSci jumps in.  LuxSci has had full tag support since June, 2007; in recent months, tagging has become easier and more powerful due to updates to our GUI (graphical user interface).

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