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How I Email: Sarah Evans, Digital Correspondent and Consultant
What’s your daily email routine like? I check my email at specific times of the day. It’s usually something like, 5:30 AM, 8:00 AM, 10:45a AM, 12 PM, 3 PM, 5 PM and 7 PM. If someone needs to reach me urgently, they can text or call me. That said, my email tab is typically
Continue reading » .How I Email: Josh Spector, Creator, For The Interested
What does your daily email routine look like? It depends a bit on the day. If I have a lot of “actual work” I need to get done, I’ll limit how often I check email to maybe once in the morning and once in the afternoon. On a typical day, it’s more fluid and I’ll
Continue reading » .The Gmail Genius #41 – Simple Gmail trick for reclaiming 5 gigs+ of space in your inbox
Gmail’s confidential mode will be on by default for G Suite users starting June 25th When you send an email in confidential mode, recipients won’t be able to forward your message to others, copy its contents, or download it, and the sender can revoke access at any point. I just cleared out my Gmail using
Continue reading » .How I Email: Ari Meisel, Founder, Less Doing
How do you personally manage your inbox? The big problem for most people with email is that they’re using email as a tool for every type of communication. And that’s a mistake in my opinion. When you’re working with a team, when you’re working with clients—there should be different tools for different kinds of communication.
Continue reading » .How I Email: Khe Hy, Blogger, RadReads
What does your daily email routine look like? I have a lot of rituals around email. I’m a batcher so I really try to respond to emails within set time periods, so I’m not “grazing” all day. To enforce that, I use a Gmail plugin called Batched Inbox. It manipulates my email through folder structures
Continue reading » .The Gmail Genius #40 – MIT scientists are working on an email tool, and it could be a game changer
The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own Lots of buzz about this new free Chrome extension that unclutters Gmail. MIT scientists are testing a better way to let you filter what comes into your inbox Now this could be a killer tool to help you perfect the art of inbox
Continue reading » .How I Email: Tiffany Markman, Freelance Writer and Writing Trainer
What does your daily email routine look like? Unlike many business owners (and most writers) I like email. There’s a twisted little dopamine hit I get from new emails flooding in, first thing in the morning. Like an army of little digital opportunities. But that’s because email and I have a strong mutual respect, based
Continue reading » .The Gmail Genius #39 – Here are the 6 new features Gmail launched this month
Gmail will do even more thinking for you with these 6 new features April 1 marked 15 years of Gmail and it rolled out a bunch of new features to celebrate, including the ability to schedule an email and send it later. 21 of the best Gmail features you might not have found yet For
Continue reading » .How I Email: Adam Grant, Organizational Psychologist, Wharton
How much time you spend on email each day? Oh, my guess is three hours a day. Does that seem like too much? How do you feel about that kind of time expenditure? It depends on the day. I do a lot of my work over email. When I’m brainstorming ideas, or giving feedback on
Continue reading » .How I Email: Cat DiStasio, Freelance Writer
How do you tackle email on a daily basis? Walk us through your routine. I try to be as mindful about my email use as I’ve become about my social media use. When I’m not checking my email, I close the browser tab, and I don’t use push notifications on my phone. When I check
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