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A blog ostensibly about email productivity.

Yo. Chris Coyier here. I think being good at email is a power move and good for your personal success. I hope to slowly figure out some details about that by forcing myself to think and write something about email every week. I hope eventually some cogent theories will arise that I can better package for you.

  • The Back-From-Vacation Inbox Speed Run

    archive-archive-archive-archive-archive How fast can you “normalize” your inbox after literally not looking at it for a week? I wonder if there is a disconnect that can be discovered in this situation. Like if email feels like a burden, yet you can kick through a week of email in a one-hour dedicated session… maybe it’s not…

    August 22, 2022
  • No Public Email on Purpose

    I’d like to talk to a variety of people who choose to make their email address completely unfindable on the internet and understand why. I’m sure there are a wide variety of reasons. Opening yourself up to communication from strangers is classically problematic from a potential abuse and harassment angle, so that’s one reason people…

    August 16, 2022
  • Shift, Ahhhh, Nevermind.

    Just a note that I switched to Shift for day to day email a few months back. I’ve used it in the past, but spent most years using Mailplane. But Mailplane is dead, so I was back in the browser for a while, then had a fling with Shortwave, but craved just the regular ol’…

    August 8, 2022
  • “So I can send an email but everyone doesn’t see who else is on it?”

    I like how the joke is “yes you can, duh, literally every person on earth knows how the features of email works”. I wish I could say that about the apps I’ve built.

    August 1, 2022
  • Why Do Email Apps Struggle…?!

    Francesco D’Alessio: Email apps. They come, they conquer — they leave. This could be written on a Roman tablet somewhere. Prepare for your email applications to just drop dead. The cost of running them and managing them sometimes is so high that they have to call it a day I think it’s because: It’s a…

    July 25, 2022
  • Bifurcation

    Chris Palmer: What distinguishes email from other digital communications is that it has become a world-writable to-do list. A world-writable to-do list is an abomination that steals our time, our attention, our autonomy, and our souls. It stops us from doing productive work. We should resist email, and prefer most other form of communications. It’s…

    July 18, 2022
  • The Right Tool

    Seth Godin on the “Reply All” feature of email: It’s all the worst elements of synchronous and asynchronous discussion rolled into one. It prioritizes speed of reply over thoughtfulness, and creates a hard-to-manage non-coordinated sort of discovery and decision making. If it’s worth taking the time of the team, it’s worth doing it in a…

    July 11, 2022
  • Scheduling Email Sends

    I’m not sure how many email clients build in the ability to send an email later, but it’s not terribly uncommon. It seems like it’s a bonus feature for new clients trying to entice users with features, and a third-party add-on for others. I don’t use it, ever. Not because I’m against it or anything,…

    July 4, 2022
  • It’s all a lie

    Three cheers for the first email client with the cojones to remove it from their UI entirely.

    June 27, 2022
  • OutHorse Your Email to Iceland’s Horses

    Clever campaign from Big Iceland Tourism: I very much hope to do this one day. I have been to Iceland once and it was a very lovely trip. Which reminds me, Exposure is also a very lovely website, but it hasn’t worked its way into regular usage from my, so I should probably move that…

    June 20, 2022
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