Archives By Author: Ajay Goel

How I Email: Sarah Evans, Digital Correspondent and Consultant

June 27, 2019

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

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How I Email: Josh Spector, Creator, For The Interested

June 6, 2019

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

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The Gmail Genius #41 – Simple Gmail trick for reclaiming 5 gigs+ of space in your inbox

June 6, 2019

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

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How I Email: Ari Meisel, Founder, Less Doing

May 30, 2019

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.

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How I Email: Khe Hy, Blogger, RadReads

May 2, 2019

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

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The Gmail Genius #40 – MIT scientists are working on an email tool, and it could be a game changer

May 2, 2019

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

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How I Email: Tiffany Markman, Freelance Writer and Writing Trainer

April 25, 2019

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

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The Gmail Genius #39 – Here are the 6 new features Gmail launched this month

April 4, 2019

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

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How I Email: Adam Grant, Organizational Psychologist, Wharton

April 4, 2019

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

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How I Email: Cat DiStasio, Freelance Writer

March 28, 2019

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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