About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I realized I had completely taken for granted the life-changing innovation that is near-infinite email storage when I received the following message Your mailbox has exceeded one or more size limits set by your administrator. Your mailbox size is 75286 KB. Mailbox size limits: You will receive a warning when your mailbox reaches 75000 KB. …
Continue reading “FailBox: The Broken State of Email Clients – Part 2”
If you’re of a certain age, as I am, your first expose to email was probably in college or at work. Processing messages daily wasn’t difficult; the number of people that had access or reason to send you messages was low and messages arrived fairly infrequently. So quaint and last century. Today, I’m tracking 8 …
Continue reading “Failbox: The Broken State of Email Clients – Part 1”
An email comes from you mom, your sister, your BFF. Does it matter what the subject line says? No, you open it right up. I suspect there are some commercial organizations you feel the same about. In my house, it’s DailyCandy, BabyCenter, Joyent, Amazon, our insurance agent, accountant, etc. Any one of those organizations could …
Continue reading “Email Subjects are Irrelevant, Only Sender Matters”
I’ve been thinking about when to send an email verses blog. I’ve decided on a loose guideline: if more than 3 people would find something useful, I’ll blog it. If not it’s an email (or, even better, an instant message) Somethings, like mailing lists, don’t map well to this guideline. To cover that, I’ve followed …
I’m starting to see more tags (see Better Email Tips) in my email subject lines. Today, I received an email canceling a meeting, with all the information contained in the subject line with “(eom)” at the end. eom: end of message I’d recommend using it when your entire message can be included in the subject …
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On MPR the other morning, they had consultant and author Marilyn Paul talking about ways to spend less time in your inbox. Her suggestion is to institute email subject line tags. You include these tags in your email subject line. Here are the one’s I remember: ty: thank you nrn: no reply necessary nbd: need …