Waldo Jaquith: I made a new Mastodon bot, called “I Hope This Email Finds You.” Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails. (It uses phrases from Google Books that include the phrase “finds you.”) I’ve been having fun reading these, so I turned it into…

… give up on email is how the headline reads. … stop being so defeatist is what I say. Ian Bogost for The Atlantic: Forget reading or responding; even just finding those messages amid the junk can be a chore. Email has felt overwhelming for a long time now, with all of its spam and…

Email is very much a thing in client work. If you work at an agency or are a contractor or the like, you likely don’t have quite the same in-house setup as employees of the company you’re doing work for. Nor does either party want that in most cases. So, they use the great time-honored…

Just noting an interesting email sending app I’ve seen seen: PencilBooth. It stands out to me because it’s ultra-focused on simplicity (without actually overstating that). There aren’t a bunch of templates that you spend ages prodding into shape. You just write an email (a “take” as they call it), are highly encouraged to drop a…

I got an email recently (in response to those questions I once posted) where the reader actively used email as a to-do list. I fully admit I often do too. It’s just part of my system sometimes. I actually have a proper to-do system, and generally it’s smarter for me to use that. Even documenting…

I’ve just started the great show Abbot Elementary. In the pilot episode … The school sends a request for more money to purchase supplies, including rugs which Janine needs for her class. The request is granted but Ava wastes the money on a new sign. Janine files a complaint to the superintendent but the email…

Perhaps most importantly, trees make people happy. In 2015, the city council in Melbourne gave each of its trees an email address so residents could report damage. Instead, the trees were bombarded with fan letters. The quietly radical plan to make all of Christchurch a ‘leafy’ suburb (via) Hi tree, My Name is Tina I’m from…

Good email from Screen Studio. It’s super quick and to the point. There is only one Call to Action, to click a link to take a survey. Better, you’re clearly told the survey is only ONE question, so you’re not in for who-knows-what time commitment. Better, when you get there, it’s multiple choice! Classy. It…

I have a memory that in the early days of Slack, a big part of the marketing was around the idea that it could replace email. Or if not all email, then email between co-workers at the same organization. I feel like they backed off that messaging at some point, and my guess was that…