Gaining the habit of keeping a clean email inbox by either archiving or deleting messages that have already been read. It drives me nuts to see someone try and dig through a long list of emails in order to find something that I just sent them/is relevant.
Inbox by Google is really great. It pushes the idea of marking emails either as "done" or "snoozed" once you read them to get them out of your inbox. That along with its grouping system is awesome for organization. It recently went out of closed beta and I recommend it to anyone.
Exactly. This tool has saved me immense time and effort in organizing and handling email. I second this recommendation as it is an invaluable tool for anyone no matter if they get a lot of email or a lot.
Once I started to organise my inbox I found Gmail's interface to be cumbersome and not fit for purpose. The main problem is that from the search screen you cannot move emails to folders - just tag them as that folder.
I don't know what improvements they have been making to outlook since they made the shift from Live Mail but I'm pretty much sworn against their service ever since I had a bad run in with their customer service. One of my old live.com emails got locked out for "suspicious activity" whatever the fuck that means - was someone trying to hack me or something? I don't know. But anyway this was an old email address that I made when I was probably 12 or 13, at an age when I still bought into the age of internet paranoia, so none of the security information I provided was legitimate and I had forgotten all of it along with the alternate email address. I opened a ticket with support, trying to figure out some way I could get my account back and after several days of haggling with them and asking for escalation to someone who would reason with me they were adamant that if I didn't know my security features there was nothing they could do for me. I felt like that was really really shitty. They could have found any number of ways to let me prove that it was an account I used to have access to but they wouldn't. I lost some valuable information that was in emails only inside that account. Fuck microsoft.
Gaining the habit of keeping a clean email inbox by either archiving or deleting messages that have already been read. It drives me nuts to see someone try and dig through a long list of emails in order to find something that I just sent them/is relevant.
Inbox by Google is really great. It pushes the idea of marking emails either as "done" or "snoozed" once you read them to get them out of your inbox. That along with its grouping system is awesome for organization. It recently went out of closed beta and I recommend it to anyone.
Exactly. This tool has saved me immense time and effort in organizing and handling email. I second this recommendation as it is an invaluable tool for anyone no matter if they get a lot of email or a lot.
Once I started to organise my inbox I found Gmail's interface to be cumbersome and not fit for purpose. The main problem is that from the search screen you cannot move emails to folders - just tag them as that folder.
Outlook.com is much nicer
I don't know what improvements they have been making to outlook since they made the shift from Live Mail but I'm pretty much sworn against their service ever since I had a bad run in with their customer service. One of my old live.com emails got locked out for "suspicious activity" whatever the fuck that means - was someone trying to hack me or something? I don't know. But anyway this was an old email address that I made when I was probably 12 or 13, at an age when I still bought into the age of internet paranoia, so none of the security information I provided was legitimate and I had forgotten all of it along with the alternate email address. I opened a ticket with support, trying to figure out some way I could get my account back and after several days of haggling with them and asking for escalation to someone who would reason with me they were adamant that if I didn't know my security features there was nothing they could do for me. I felt like that was really really shitty. They could have found any number of ways to let me prove that it was an account I used to have access to but they wouldn't. I lost some valuable information that was in emails only inside that account. Fuck microsoft.