22 February 2023 - kudos:

Outlook’s semi-new “reactions” are killing me; if it’s not accessible from another email client, it shouldn’t be a feature. Email is one of the few shared web protocols we’ve got, so let’s not ruin it through platformization.

why I put email back on my phone

1 November 2022 - kudos:

Since the beginning of COVID-19, I’ve been dismantling a lot of my productivity and organization systems, trying to put less pressure on myself to get things done and be more mindful in how I spend my time. Several months ago—I cannot remember exactly when—this culminated in taking email off my phone and pivoting away from the excellent Things 3 task management app to a more paper notebook-driven approach to keeping track of what I need to get done.

11 April 2022 - kudos:

Pleased with my decision to no longer tackle email on weekends; less pleased with the Mailbox Mondays that have resulted.

7 March 2019 - kudos:

I have been getting emails incorrectly calling me “Dr.” or “Professor” since I was an undergrad with my own section of French 102. Now, it’s nice to get one of those and be able to suppress the instinct to correct the sender.

21 February 2019 - kudos:

A bug in my macOS mail client has just told me that after years of trying, I have finally reached the elusive “Inbox Negative One.”

15 January 2019 - kudos:

Just misspelled my own name in an email because I didn’t want to be impersonal by using my text expansion-powered signature 🙄