There is a new wonderful coffee table book for a certain type of person, in which the Venn diagram of people who would enjoy it and this type of site is pretty overlappy: The iOS App Icon Book. It’s by Michael Flarup, but a lot of the content originates from Jim Nielsen‘s iOS Icon Gallery, so they…

Say you have one of those inboxes with tens of thousands of emails in there. While you might still be a decently high-functioning email person, chances are slim. It’s probably an all-too-present sign of email being a problem for you. My usual opinion is that you take steps toward fixing it. You’re probably subscribed to…

Josh Spector published them. I’ll pluck out a few I like here: 3. If a message was truly urgent, it wouldn’t have been sent to you in an email. 13. You don’t always have to reply. 20. Emails are a terrible place for small talk. 24. Your inbox works for you — not the other way around.…

Data from Brendan G on the Boomerang blog in 2017: Email Closing Response Rate thanks in advance 65.7% thanks 63.0% thank you 57.9% cheers 54.4% kind regards 53.9% regards 53.5% best regards 52.9% best 51.2% Baseline(all emails in sample) 47.5%

Lars Wirzenius rounded up some responses to an ask about what people like and dislike about email. Here’s the full list, but I’ll pluck off a few: Likes It’s not real time It’s established Separation between discussions Subject lines Dislikes Unreliable (no strong guarantee reciept gets it) Spam Quoting, specifically top-quoting Organization is difficult I…

I need to take some time to closely read this insanely detailed article from Kaspar Etter. It’s not my goal necessarily to understand every detail of how email works, as I’m more interested in how managing it well is an ingredient to business success, but understanding how things work is always enlightening. Sometimes digging into…

They prefer to use Norse code! This stupid joke had me searching for when the first email ever sent was (I’m, uh, well aware there is a significant time gap between Vikings and Computers). Turns up as: Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. “I sent a…

You can filter for autoresponders and archive them, to some degree, with elbow grease. But it’s that time of year where we start seeing a ton of autoresponders and it’s got me thinking about it again. Personally, I don’t care to see them ever. I literally don’t care in any context. Hit me back when…

Most people are anti-email open tracking because, ya know, it’s a violation of privacy that the recipient didn’t opt in to and it’s weird and creepy (literally everyone I know turns off read receipts on text messages). Extra creepy when it tries to geolocate the open. But hey it can also be embarrassing to show…

There is a bunch of funny ones in the thread. Black Friday emails next to Black Lives Matters emails. An email inbox is a weird place to be. Emails try to play to your emotions and deliver emotions, but those emotions can be extremely opposite. Serious and silly sit right next to each other. But…