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 […]