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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.

  • “Thanks in advance”

    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%

    January 10, 2022
  • What people like or hate about email

    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 […]

    January 3, 2022
  • Email Explained from First Principles

    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 […]

    December 27, 2021
  • Why don’t Vikings like to send emails?

    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 […]

    December 21, 2021
  • Email Clients Should Offer to Hide Autoresponders

    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 […]

    December 13, 2021
  • Email Tracking Embarrassment

    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 […]

    December 6, 2021
  • Inbox Context

    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 […]

    November 30, 2021
  • Titan

    News from back in August: Automattic Invests $30M in Titan, a Business Email Startup. That’s the kind of news that perks my head up as… I’m kind of a fan of Automattic and the WordPress universe. I, uh, have a blog about email. I think the name Titan is cool Apparently .email is a TLD […]

    November 22, 2021
  • The Email TODO List

    Personally, my inbox is my TODO list. One of them, anyway. I also use Things as my TODO machine. That seems messy, doesn’t it? But it seems to work for me. The reason is that my TODO list isn’t all email-related things. It could be “buy a gift for my nephew’s birthday” or “make an […]

    November 15, 2021
  • Mimestream

    It’s been six months since Mailplane threw in the towel, saying Google is going to destroy the ability for users to log in in apps like Mailplane. I keep an eye on this saga a bit as I’m a big Mailplane user. I like having a dedicated app for email, but I actually like the […]

    November 8, 2021
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