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Outlook is a solid, good email client, but it isn’t always the email client in use wherever you happen to be. Some companies prefer to use Gmail, for example, and sometimes you just want a change. If you can’t use …
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Email organization is one of the more fundamental goals with any structured time management plan, especially one that’s striving to reach the lofty goal of Inbox Zero. I make no promises that grouping your conversations will help you reach it, …
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It’s not unusual to think of communications with a temperature involved. Email in particular can be considered hot or cold, depending on the state of the relationship you have with the person at the other end. Hot emails, hot leads, …
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A few times over the past few weeks, I’ve written about various methods you can use to better manage your email workload. The idea is usually the same: figure out what’s coming in, categorize it, and act on it accordingly. …
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Years ago, desktop notifications were a novel experience. It wasn’t all that common for an app to be able to interact with you outside of its own window. Some programs used workarounds to display messages and notifications as pop-ups on …
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In the world of healthcare, triage is a very important concept. If you’ve ever been to a doctor’s office and wondered why people who came in after you are being seen first, discounting appointments, triage is generally the answer. It’s …
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When you send an important email, there’s an immediate sense of relief. It’s done, it’s out there, it has been sent, and now all you can do is await a reply. The relief is short-lived, since you immediately start to …
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If you’ve ever been told that robots would be taking over your job, or that automation is the wave of the future, you may have been skeptical. Sure, robots are great for manufacturing where repetitive, manual tasks need to be …
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Try as you might, as you progress through life, sooner or later you’re going to end up on a mailing list. Several, probably. Dozens, maybe. Occasionally, even hundreds. Every website, every service, every game, has its own newsletter, and that’s …
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Years and years ago, in the long-forgotten era of 2003, the email wars were in full swing. There was a battle between the free web-based email clients like Hotmail, and the fully-featured email apps like Outlook. Google’s Gmail wouldn’t come …
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