Jeff Atwood, blogger and coder over at Coding Horror, one of the many blogs I read, had this post up sometime last year, and I thought it was such a good post that I’ve recommended it to a couple friends, but I realized I never actually blogged it.
Jeff discusses a similar topic to what I’ve discussed in [...]
Recently was chastised for Bottom posting on a Mailing list, so I thought I’d write a few words about it.
I bottom (or inline post) mostly because I like the email to be a message. You read a message or a letter from top to bottom, from left to right. It wasn’t until email [...]
Someone asked me:
“Joel,
I read your last post on Thunderbird and noticed you said [...] that you were “over client based email”. I use Thunderbird. Why do you say that? What don’t you like about [...], client based applications?” – Yes I paraphrased. But spelling is intact.
Mail.app
– I would like the ability to shut off Spotlight [...]
Probably belongs in a tweet, but since I blogged about it here, I’ll write it here.
Stopped using Thunderbird. After it consumed 20 Gigs of space downloading my email, constantly kept my CPU at 80-100% and the hardware fan busy, consuming 500 Megs of RAM… I ditched it and went back to Gmail on the web.
It [...]
I know you’ve read from me time and again that I am a big proponent of Google’s Gmail interface. However, ever since Mozilla put out Thunderbird 3.0, i’ve been trying it. It combines the best of both worlds, offline (even though Gmail just released that non-lab), client access, OSX integration. But perhaps the best thing [...]
I received an email recently asking me why I haven’t blogged (really at all) about email recently. This person enjoys my tips, and actually, the most read articles on my blog are about Email. However, I think it’s because I have it figured out now.
I use Gmail on the web. No local client. (This [...]
Been running Snow Leopard since yesterday. As Apple promised, on the surface, you can’t really tell that anything is different. When you click on the dock, you notice the popup is different. You notice the stacks are different when you click on them. You notice the 20Gb (Yes, GB!) of space [...]
Managing To-Dos
As I promised a follow up post to my previous blog post here.
I stated, I try to manage things through Todo lists. When I read an email that I need to take action on, I make a ToDo out of it. Simple to complex, I make a ToDo out of it. [...]
I know I have written many articles on productivity as it relates to Email and GTD before. Check out some past articles here, here, and here. In fact, that last article is my most hit and read article on my blog, in the (almost) five years I’ve been blogging.
Recently, with a lot of [...]
When my company went from using an IMAP server (which I used to filter using procmail rules) to using Google’s Gmail Cloud architecture for our email, I was excited. I’d been using my Google Gmail account for years, and up until that point, had always done so through IMAP.
After I moved my incredible amount [...]