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A blog ostensibly about email productivity.

Yo. Chris Coyier here. I think being good at email is a power move and good for your personal success. I hope to slowly figure out some details about that by forcing myself to think and write something about email every week. I hope eventually some cogent theories will arise that I can better package for you.

  • Terminal Email

    I like this little cute message: Although… in my case, it’s not actually a real indicator that I have email at any of my main inboxes. If I type mail, I can see the messages. Since I’m on macOS I figured it would be whatever Mail.app is seeing, but that’s doesn’t seem to be the…

    March 20, 2023
  • AI & Email

    What we’re calling AI now already has been involved with email. Spam! Filtering spam is an AI job, and it’s been killing it for quite a while now. I hope email providers keep at it. Then there is AI at the writer and reader levels of email. Which… also is related to spam. If I…

    March 13, 2023
  • The Common Denominator

    I read a thing once (I really should find it) about DevOps and notifications (I think) where the author said something like: Email is a terrible notification system. The only thing worse than email is everything else. The point was like… you should probably have phone or SMS-based alerting systems for DevOps problems, but that…

    March 6, 2023
  • The Majority of Email Isn’t Actionable

    Obvious? Probably. That’s part of the reason I published my thing going through my own inbox. Just as a little social confirmation that my inbox situation isn’t that different than most others, which from the feedback I heard is true. I also think this is a potential problem with email innovation. This conclution is easy…

    February 27, 2023
  • How much does inbox.emails.length matter?

    One of the things I’d like to root out about people’s relationship to email is whether having email hanging around in your inbox is actually a problem or not. Is there a fairly universal answer to this? Are people with 10,000 emails in their inbox bad at email? As in… Are they stressed? Do they…

    February 20, 2023
  • Outlook

    Outlook is a major player in email. But what does “Outlook” mean exactly? It means email software from Microsoft, but it’s certainly not one thing. Once upon a time there was just one ‘Microsoft Outlook‘ but these days there are at least ten current programs or services under the ‘Outlook’ name * and two programs called “Outlook for Windows”.…

    February 13, 2023
  • Any Hour

    The article from The Cut is making the rounds. People are loving arguing about the strongly-worded advice laid out in it. Everyone has their own hell yes’s and hell no’s. Here’s a hell yes from me: 94. It’s okay to email, text, or DM anyone at any hour. There’s nothing worse than being woken up…

    February 6, 2023
  • My Clearing Out My Work Inbox

    Here’s me! This is my business inbox that really isn’t very busy at all, and it’s very heavily skewed toward… garbage? Perhaps I’m a bit salty there, but I suspect most of us are when we’re getting solicited constantly.

    January 30, 2023
  • Ads in Email

    I saw this in r/AssholeDesign: A user in the comments verifies that Yahoo and Gmail do it too. In the case of Gmail, in the promotions tab: I’ve never seen it. Not sure why. Maybe because I pay for Gmail storage or something and that makes me a paid customer and they don’t show them…

    January 23, 2023
  • Email Culture at Work

    When I think about other people and what their email-at-work situation is like, I imagine them on email threads with their co-workers and responding to requests from their bosses or managers. But I wonder how accurate that is? Is that just some weird manifestation of my mind? I’ve literally never had a professional job like…

    January 16, 2023
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