I can understand the desire to totally strike email from your life. I find most adult life fantasies are about a simpler life. You visit some small town on vacation and imagine yourself living there, taking in the views, having a late lunch, and practicing your breathing. A life without email is like that. Your…

I use all three as well. Calendar is the winner for me in what takes top priority. Whatever is on there happens. Email is the winner for taking up time. I spend a lot of time there communicating and planning. Todo lists, for me, are a bit sloppy. They are just things I don’t want…

Lolz poor Emily.

You ever wait weeks for a response to an email, then it comes and you respond right away, then they respond right away again? Then you respond right away again, then you respond right away again? I’m sure you have. Email isn’t a top-to-bottom stack. We respond to emails in a totally random order based…

Amen, Amy.

Have you ever tried creating a rules page like this? It’s only relevant to situations where you’re putting your email address in a public place and welcoming perfect strangers to email you. I notice Rachel Andrew has a page that redirects people to different places before giving out her email. On the contact form on…

No, not the kind where you just email someone over and over and over until you get a response. I can’t recommend against that strongly enough. I mean forcing yourself to answer an email no matter how much work it is. That’s the thing with emails, it’s often not just typing out a response and…

Interesting poll: I’m almost surprised that email is at 24% (3rd place) out of those 4 options. Email doesn’t seem like a particularly strong creator of memories for me. Oooo remember that email I got from John in March 2012? Nah. Texts and private chats are more intimate seeming to me. Business-free zones, generally.

Cutting your inbox in half is awesome! I’m sure 676 still feels overwhelming, but that’s a pretty big accomplishment after it’s gotten away like that. I can’t help but think that it’s a big deal how that work happened though. Was it just a lot of culling by swiping them away? Or did it feel…

Allen Gannett: Like many people, the phone is a tool of last resort. I’d rather text or Slack or email or carrier pigeon. But I’ve noticed that many of the most successful, productive people I’ve met are what you might call “phone-prone.” If you send them a text, they call you instead of texting back.…