How to take control of your inbox
A fun flowchart to guide you towards inbox nirvana
Remember the time when email was fun? Yes, yes, the time when you wrote letters, shared fun trivia and whatnot with friends(!)
Email today, though, is a big part of our lives for not-so-fun reasons. And this has led to a number of productivity articles, books and even apps to help you master this beast.
So I decided to humour myself by making this guide to managing the inbox, based on what I usually do:
This visualisation is made on the Whimsical diagramming app that I am so in love with :) Below’s the link to the browser-version of the flowchart, complete with the ability to zoom, move around, click some links, and best of all, the ability to export a high res image or print this out if you’d like!
I write a lot about email (and the movie, You’ve Got Mail). How it comes in the way of my life, how email marketers are insensitive to the recipient’s experience. I write so much about it, that I wrote a story on how much I’ve written about it.
Having written so much about email, the only natural next step was to start my own newsletter. Enter Design Tuesdays — an experiment in reverse social media, where the letters are self-contained stories. Aimed at generating conversations, the way letters were originally intended to, there’s no “read more” — but there is a “reply”.
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