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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.

  • The Phone Push

    Don’t you love it when a form of some kind asks how you prefer to communicate? No joke — it’s great. Both my health care place and my car mechanic place has an option like this. Phone, text, or email. Perfectly nice options. I mean, I’ll take a webhook if you got it but these…

    September 25, 2023
  • Best,

    That’s what I mean, dunno about you.

    September 18, 2023
  • Have you ever accidently archived one or many emails in Gmail accidentally, and you didn’t see exactly what it was, but need to get it back in the inbox?

    This happens to me every once in a while. Usually I swipe an email away completely on accident (maybe I was trying to swipe a different one). But I didn’t even see which email exactly I swiped away my mistake. How do you get it back? The trick, and thanks for Matthew R. Lee for…

    September 12, 2023
  • Hard Fork

    The Sep. 1st, 2023 episode of Hard Fork had some interesting stuff in it related to note taking and personal productivity software. Casey is ultra organized and uses fancy new software at every opportunity. Kevin is ultra unorganized where his whole note taking system is saving untitled drafts in email. That’s about as far away…

    September 4, 2023
  • Different Kind of Construction

    August 28, 2023
  • Finds You Well

    For real. It’s a cheesy saying, plus has strong “pseudo spam” energy. It’s likely to be followed up with: I’m Tanner Sugarloafer, founder of 3 Start-ups, and Senior Software Engineer at Amazon, now building a scaled data and business development company targeting millions of potential buyers each month. We know exactly how to frame, pitch…

    August 21, 2023
  • The Dropoff

    This is a pretty niche situation but it happened to me the other day it felt weird and I keep thinking about it, so I figured I’d write it down. What happened is that I received a very nice email from someone I admire. They knew who I was and flattered me a little. They…

    August 14, 2023
  • Gmail AI

    Google says these things are AI-powered: Those all seem pretty smart to me. My favorite AI tools are ones that don’t require manual prompting, unless there is a big benefit to manual prompting. I can’t help but think though… are these really “AI” features? What distinguishes that anymore. They seem a little bit like… features.…

    August 7, 2023
  • Email Feature Support

    Back in the day, the best website for answering the question “what CSS features does this email client support?” or probably more usefully “do most email clients support this particular CSS feature?” was Campaign Monitor’s CSS Support Guide for Email Clients. It’s still there and looks to still be a decent resource. More recently we’ve…

    August 1, 2023
  • Apple’s Style Guide says it’s “email”

    E: email (n., v., adj.) One word. Send an email to your manager. Your manager wants you to email her. You can set up email filters. When referring to more than one email, use email if you’re using the word in a collective sense; use emails to refer to a specific group or type of emails. You can filter…

    July 18, 2023
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