Tiago Forte’s personal system: Unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, of course! Then have a place for the incoming things to GO, like a task manager, calendar, and read-later app. I gotta admit I agree with all of this so hard and I’m absolutely dripping with envy of how well done and presented this is.

Yo I fricking despise automated email campaigns, much of it being fairly easy to categorize as spam. And yet, if you have your slimy little fingers on a bunch of semi-targeted email addresses and have a useful product or service, I bet it has a decent success rate. I have to admit the the idea…

Post by @kelidanovus@hachyderm.io View on Mastodon The CAN-SPAM act in the United States does not make it illegal to obtain consent to add people to an email list (?!!), but GDPR in the European Union does. So if anything is auto-subscribing you and not checking country of residence, I suppose it’s a small solace that…

I hadn’t heard of SaneBox until running across this interview Focus on the email that matters with Dmitri Leonov, founder of SaneBox. Fair warning, it has a kind of “sponsored content” vibe to it, but I enjoyed it. It has interesting data in it and it seems like the tools they are building are generally…

I’ve heard of people picking up a decent @gmail.com email address for their newborn child. The spirit, I suppose, is that it’s already hard to get good names on the internet, and it will only get worse. So if you named your kid Timberford Jones, maybe you should make the rounds at all the sites.…

It’s almost Halloween, so there is a particular meme I’m seeing a lot. What were we afraid of as kids? Freddy and aliens and shit. What are we afraid of as adults? A red badge over your email app with 25,832 unread emails. Fair enough, that’s kind of a scary situation. You could just trash…

I’m only just hearing about this somehow.

I think unsubscribing to stuff is perhaps the most important thing you can do to keep your inbox in check. When I see people’s messy ass inboxes, they are full of crap they should just unsubscribe from. They don’t because it feels like an unwinnable battle. It’s not, it’s winnable. My advice is still: fight.…

Is using your inbox as a TODO list… bad? I think there is a general industry vibe that it is. Like it’s not the right tool for the job. Like the best inbox is an inbox with nothing in it. Inbox zero, as it were, which involves triaging actual work to do away from the…

It’s worth a read for being funny and relatable in certain ways. I need to communicate with thousands of people all over the world as I write my books. I also want to be responsive to the people who read those books and have questions or comments. My goal is to do this communication efficiently,…