Email is good.

After I sold CSS-Tricks, I get way less than half the email I used to. Relatively, it now feels absolutely trivial to manage my email. I don’t need any fancy techniques, organizing concepts, or special software to stay on top of things. I look at my email and just deal with it. I even get…

I’ve never worked at a company big enough to get included in emails where I don’t even know why, but I know a lot of people struggle with that.

I enjoyed clicking through the slides that Peter Ramsey put together. All good points, I think. It’s mostly about the onboarding process, which has some pretty hilariously bad issues, like these FIVE DEEP popups: There is a good bit about how Google warms you up with agreeing to an easy-to-agree to feature before hitting you…

Tucked away in a listicle from Clo S. titled How to Make your Email Inbox Calmer: We outsource to inboxes the storage of memories, to-dos, information streams to stay in touch with our favourite topics, and more. Your inbox is your own space on the Internet, private by default, with a key – your email…

You got this one: And you got this one: I prefer the latter, as it doesn’t force you to look at any one particular email all the time, you can default to the overview.

I gotta ask around about this more. For a long time I managed a bunch of very separate email addresses. For example, my personal email at chriscoyier@gmail.com, a general CSS-Tricks email at team@css-tricks.com, and my CodePen-specific email chris@codepen.io. They all happened to be Google-based, so that made it easier-ish. The mobile Gmail app was happy…

It’s been a hot minute since this dude was answering emails. The first one was uploaded to YouTube in 2009, but was actually first published in 2001. Making fun of peoples email via email is a great use of email.

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…