Email is good.

I was kinda preparing to roll my eyes at this, but it’s pretty good! What I like are the actual examples, even if they are made generic. Definitely prefer seeing good/bad examples rather than just stating a tip without backing it up with an example. This is a good line: Therein lies the beauty of […]

Y'all ever try the… …thing in an HTML email? It totally works, you can put interactive form elements right in the email and a button to submit it and it goes. It’s a smidge awkward as, in the case of Gmail in the browser, Gmail confirms that you want to do it and blocks the […]

It occurred to me while swiping away some finance related emails that the concept of autopay is helpful to my inbox. I get an email about the fact that my monthly payment for my leased truck is coming due. Archive! That’ll just pay itself. I get an email from a credit card that the monthly […]

I mentioned in February I was trying the email client Shortwave, and it feels worth reporting that we’re now in April and I’m still on it! I have little mini flings with email clients fairly regularly and always find my way back to something that is either just Gmail itself or some wrapper that doesn’t […]

Shit User Story: (Insert the meme where even if the meeting actually is an email, nobody wants that either.)

There are different expectations for different emails. It’s tempting to make broad declarations like “emails don’t have the same expectation of immediate reply as a text message does”, but that’s not taking into account any context. If your boss emails you and says “Take a look at this and let me know your thoughts”, there […]

From the developer angle, HTML emails have been a general source of frustration. Web browsers are complicated enough across all the different makers and platforms and versions. Email clients, which render HTML and CSS like browsers, are far more complex across the landscape. Why? Why can’t they just use one of the popular open-source rendering […]

I’d be remiss if I missed the tech news that some ex-Googlers behind Google Inbox have launched a new email client, Shortwave, that attempts to bring some of that spirit back. I hopped on it right away to give it a spin. On the first day, it literally wasn’t sending my emails, so I bailed. […]