Jim Nielsen: So when the plane begins boarding, for example, I’m told about it with an email, a text, and a push notification. You really do get a swarm of information coming at you when you’re flying. I can see how someone would think it’s too much. LAY OFF ME. I wouldn’t say I like […]| Email is good.
I've talked about Team Handled Email before. The ultra basic implementation of that is just all sharing a Gmail account or whatever. You'd better check the Terms of Service on whatever email app you use if you're doing that. I'm pretty sure Google doesn't like that, and it seems awfully risky when that's the case.…| Email is good.
Wes Kao: Before you hit “send,” delete these words from your writing. Your message will be stronger for it. I once had my own list but it was focused on educational writing, less-so emails.| Email is good.
Miski Omar: I get a ping from the family group chat, which doubles as an IT helpdesk for my mum. My best friend just FaceTimed me about a White Lotusepisode, and another left a voice note crying about a possible diagnosis. All this, lodged between videos of cats and genocide. The boundaries between reception and […]| Email is good.
Discover a clever idea linking email addresses with social media handles. Check out Maggie's Instagram for more inspiration!| Email is good.
A quiz by Sam Rose. It gets weirder the further you go. Like: Did you know emails could have comments? Anything (in parens) is a comment. Introduced in RFC 822, but made obsolete by RFC 5322. And you can use square brackets to provide an IP instead of a domain??| Email is good.
I'm not even close to a heavy user yet, but I have to admit that Fastmail has been really nice to use as an email client. I could see going primary with it at some point. While we're on a little Fastmail kick here, I thought I'd share Jason's "Mail rules on Fastmail that make…| Email is good.
They call it TEN as in the Text Email Newsletter Standard (TEN Standard). It's rules for formatting PLAIN TEXT emails (more than 10 haha). Here's some I really like: +05: Minimise any introductory or background text at the top of each issue, so that the reader arrives at the ‘contents’ section as soon as possible.…| Email is good.
… the inbox is invaluable for me, because it acts as a domain-specific todo list: it draws a hard line between the things that have been handled (archived), and the things that are not (inbox). Crossing this line requires an explicit act. Fernando Borretti in Inboxes are Underrated Another interesting observation: … most people never archive their […]| Email is good.
I just mentioned I picked up coyier.com and used Fastmail with it. I’m not really sure yet what my overall plans for it will be, so for now, I just pointed the nameservers entirely at Fastmail. It just felt easier than changing MX records only or whatever. But because I did that, that means web […]| Email is good.