“I am getting to the point where I want to stop everyone but people I know and work with from emailing me. I don’t want people calling me on my phone to sell me stuff or inform me of things that they think I should know. My email is rapidly becoming that way. No more […]
Category: Email
Yes, This is a Vacation From You
“I’m on vacation, and I’ve deleted your message —really” – Dave Thomas Now, imagine you’re going on a multi-week vacation. You visit the USPS and ask them to not just put a hold on your mail – just burn every piece of it. Bold. Proud. Vacation. It’s consistent with my view that the more important/busy/valuable/highly-paid […]
Vinh on Email
“Email is not broken, if you ask me. It could be better, for sure, but I don’t think it requires the drastic changes that so many other people seem to believe are necessary. And I certainly don’t need messaging intermediaries entering the picture. These alternatives just fracture what is for me a pretty well consolidated […]
email’s inviting
Landing in my inbox this morning: “Many people have mentioned that they didn’t receive the Evite invitation we sent, so I’m sending this follow up email…”
REmail
I’m so tired of doing this kind of thing in silos. Email is mine. Google+ is Google’s. In terms of location, I feel like I’m in a corporate setting in Google+, and I feel like I’m at home when I’m in email. The reason, aside from design differences, is that email is free-as-in-freedom. Its protocols […]
The Same is True for Email
“The user interface has to evolve to be much less email-like, and everything has to get way easier than it is now.” – Brent Simmons
Failbox – Knuth/Eco Edition
“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.” – Don Knuth “I don’t even have an E-mail address. I have […]
How I Reached Inbox Zero(ish)
Something must be in the air. Like Dave, I’ve been making a concerted effort to clean out my email inbox over the past couple weeks. All year, I’ve been fluctuating between 80 – 140 messages, not including the hundreds sitting in my ‘Respond to’ folder. For the past week, I’ve been steadily at Inbox Zero. […]
Arik Jones on Failbox
I’m please to see Arik Jones keeping the Failbox torch burning – in a post on the need for a smarter email client ” However, it could group todays messages in a “top 25 most important” list. That’s all I’d ever see for an inbox. Talk about getting your email priorities straight.” – Arik Jones […]
FailBox: The Broken State of Email Clients – Part 3
“Last week a friend send me an email, while I was traveling. So he got my ‘out of office reply’.”- Wolfgang Luenenbuerger Wolfgang goes on to describe how – in an age of instant messaging, mobile devices, and wifi – the ‘out of office’ reply is as anachronistic as the busy signal. Both signals assume […]