They’ve asked the 4,700 hospitals to shoot over a daily email and tell them. Wow.

Strong opinion from Tobias Van Scheider: The only time contact forms are worthwhile is when you are trying to collect very specific information for the purpose of helping someone or completing a task. Otherwise, forms are a relic from web days past. Eh. I don’t think forms are a relic from web days past. Email…

I suppose if I email my home insurance agent needing to ask a fairly urgent question about my home insurance, and they happen to be in Hawaii for the week and aren’t answering emails, I’d appreciate an auto-responder email. But that’s maybe it. 94% of the time I don’t care about auto-responders, and particularly not…

Clicccckkkkk baaaaiiiiiit. Nonetheless, it got me thinking about email subject lines. For example, the CSS-Tricks Newsletter has this subject line exactly every single week: 📝 This Week in Web Design and Development That’s maybe a missed opportunity. Every week I could hand-craft it instead focusing in on a particularly dramatic thing in the newsletter. Stephanie…

Interesting how many there are. Basically wrappers: Boxy Suite (simple wrapper) MailPlane (wrapper with tabs) Shift (window for multiple communication apps) Wavebox (window for multiple communication apps) Wrappers with heavily re-done themes: Superhuman (fancy minimalist ui) Tempo (fancy minimalist ui) Unique UIs: KanbanMail (what you think it is) Sortd (also like kanbans) Spike (turns email…

Here’s a little fun coronavirus spam: In Gmail, if I click the “Report spam” button, I get this: That “Report spam & unsubscribe” secondary button action feels dangerous. If I click that, I’m telling the spammer “I got it, thanks, I’m a human being over here with a a real email address that actively manages…

Tim Chase pointed me to this. 1995! Netiquette! I’m going to copy out the bit about email (“mail”) so I have a copy here. Some of this feels a smidge outdated, but most of it feels pretty right on 35 years later.

There is a 2014 blog post from Karl Dubost called Apprendre à travailler avec le mail. Coralie Mercier translated it to English, because it had a Creative Commons license. What I’m going to do here is republish that English translation, but clean it up in a few bits to read smoother. The rest of this…

All the coronavirus stuff has people working from home in huge numbers, and thus a lot of recent writing about working from home. Some of the advice is kinda funny. Funny how the big flagship companies that do it already, like Automattic, are being pinged for advice. They aren’t big on email, it turns out:…