Email

Never Check Email

Monday, December 29th, 2008

I know, that’s just silly. How about this instead: don’t check email in the morning? I watched a great video featuring Julie Morgenstern, the author of, coincidentally enough, Never Check E-Mail In the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work:

 
This idea of not checking email in the morning plays off of […]

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Email Disclaimers

Monday, December 8th, 2008

What I would like to see is a standard set for appending legal disclaimers to emails. In this way email client software could hide all this silly text. The email software could, for example, add a link with something like "This email contains disclaimers. Click here to read". Or even simpler, could we just not […]

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GMail From The Desktop

Friday, February 8th, 2008

In a previous post regarding the consolidation of multiple email accounts into a single inbox, I mentioned that I use Gmail as my central mailbox. I also mentioned that because Gmail supports IMAP, you can use both the Gmail web interface and a desktop email client to send and receive email while keeping both in […]

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Managing Email

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The other day I was reading The Four Hour Trial where he laments over having to check email on multiple email accounts. The 4-Hour Workweek counsels us to immediately implement a personal policy of checking email only twice a day (with the ultimate goal of checking even less frequently - author Tim Ferriss boasts of […]

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