Email is good.

Why aren’t they returning your emails more quickly? Maybe you’re in time out. I don’t do it often, but I just had to do it recently to someone and it has me thinking about it. In this case, they were just annoying to deal with. I would provide clear information, then they would respond and […]

Minda Zetlin at Inc, crediting advice from Adam Grant: We can collectively cut [the 2 hours and 36 minutes we spend on email every day] way down by adding one simple sentence to the end of every email we send. The sentence should say something like this: “If you can, I would appreciate a response by […]

Joni Halabi looks at a bunch of options: Revue, MailChimp, Emma, MailerLite, and ButtonDown. ButtonDown was the best choice for her. Pretty interesting how they offer a physical mail scan-and-forward service to all users. At CodePen, we hand-roll a whole fancy CMS for newsletters and ultimately send them via SparkPost. In my CSS-Tricks days, I […]

Figure I better document all my favorite email memes. Wish I had the vectors (and original artists).

archive-archive-archive-archive-archive How fast can you “normalize” your inbox after literally not looking at it for a week? I wonder if there is a disconnect that can be discovered in this situation. Like if email feels like a burden, yet you can kick through a week of email in a one-hour dedicated session… maybe it’s not […]

I’d like to talk to a variety of people who choose to make their email address completely unfindable on the internet and understand why. I’m sure there are a wide variety of reasons. Opening yourself up to communication from strangers is classically problematic from a potential abuse and harassment angle, so that’s one reason people […]

Just a note that I switched to Shift for day to day email a few months back. I’ve used it in the past, but spent most years using Mailplane. But Mailplane is dead, so I was back in the browser for a while, then had a fling with Shortwave, but craved just the regular ol’ […]

I like how the joke is “yes you can, duh, literally every person on earth knows how the features of email works”. I wish I could say that about the apps I’ve built.

Francesco D’Alessio: Email apps. They come, they conquer — they leave. This could be written on a Roman tablet somewhere. Prepare for your email applications to just drop dead. The cost of running them and managing them sometimes is so high that they have to call it a day I think it’s because: It’s a […]

Chris Palmer: What distinguishes email from other digital communications is that it has become a world-writable to-do list. A world-writable to-do list is an abomination that steals our time, our attention, our autonomy, and our souls. It stops us from doing productive work. We should resist email, and prefer most other form of communications. It’s […]