Why you should stop using your inbox as a to do list.
Our inboxes are the hubs of our daily lives. Some of us check email first thing when we roll out of bed. (That’s a bad habit too!) They store notes from various people that are important to us on some level trying to get our attention. But if we start to use it as a way of keeping track of the things we need to get done, problems emerge. See one email but there are 3 tasks attached, one with a deadline? Get distracted by all the things... Read More
4 Sanity Saving Tricks for Gmail
As someone who values being as productive as possible, I find using Gmail helps me keep up with my inbox while trying to get things done. If you are a Gmail user yourself, there are some things that you can do to make life in your inbox a little less cluttered and stressful. Here are a few of my favorites: 1. Muted conversations Do you keep getting included on reply all threads that you don’t really need to be on? Mute the conversation!... Read More
How to Back Up Your Gmail Account
As a long time Gmail fan, every email that I send or receive goes through my gmail account. Once I was annoyed by it’s clustered conversations but then it won me over with keyboard shortcuts and amazing search of my inbox. One thing that does terrify me is their ability to lock you out of your account, taking several days to fix it even if you do the required reset to your password via text message or secondary email. While I have both... Read More
6 steps for getting out of email hell
Aliza Sherman recently blogged about how she organizes her email over at Web Worker Daily. As a personal assistant, it’s not uncommon to help people sort out their email process at the beginning of our working relationship. So I left a comment full of tips to help her get started in sorting out her inbox so she wasn’t feeling so “like climbing Mount Everest”. Editor’s Note: These tips are primarily for Gmail users, but... Read More
More Gmail Features to Love: Send and Archive
Regular readers know that I’m a huge Gmail fan. I’ve written about the way I used Things + Gmail to make life a little easier (the comments have some great tips too!), but a while back I requested a feature from Google that would make my heart melt. I discovered this morning that my wish had come true. Anyone can now log into Gmail, go to Labs and enable the Send and Archive feature that allows you to hit tab + enter and it’ll... Read More
