7 Email Efficiency Tips To Get More Email Done, Faster
Life revolves around communication and literally nothing gets accomplished without it. Email is a communication tool meant to make your life easier. Instead of having to type up a letter or try to catch someone on the phone or in person, you can quickly type a few lines and be over it. But email can also be a significant time sink. This typically happens when it is used in the wrong way.
Become a Pro Outlook User By Avoiding Common Mistakes
If you work in a typical office environment, the odds are pretty good that the mail system is an Exchange sever and that the mail client of choice is Outlook. We've covered Outlook here at MUO from a few angles, including Outlook Journal and backing up your Outlook data. We even covered some cool VBA scripting in Outlook where you could export your tasks into an Excel spreadsheet. In this article, I'm going to take a closer look at the Outlook client itself.
Free Your Inbox: Easily & Automatically Prioritize Emails With These Free Tools
Email has almost completely replaced snail mail communication. Now everyone is trying to get into your inbox. From family and friends to companies and advertisers, they all demand a piece of your attention. If you have not been managing your inbox with filters and other prioritization tools, it must be a mess. And with ever more emails cluttering it up, it's easy to lose track. Have you ever missed an important email?
Setting Up An Email Client? Here Is Mail Server Info For The 3 Biggest Email Providers
Do you still use any desktop email clients? The last one that I ever made any significant use of was Outlook Express, and that feels like forever ago. Since then, I've given both Thunderbird and Postbox (which I was very impressed with) a spin, but desktop email clients in general seem like a lost cause to a Gmail user like myself. Nothing beats the Gmail web interface, in my opinion. My opinion isn't the law of the land though.
Will Emailing The Executives Of The Company Who Built Your Computer Really Help?
We live in a very personal world where PC brands try to connect with us on a more intimate level. Sure, it's just another form of advertising, but with social networking, it's easier than ever to get in touch with these companies for support, information on new features, and insight on future products. It's all rather great, but shouldn't we able to contact the head honchos of these businesses, too?
Take Your Inbox Box To Zero With Mailbox For The iPhone
The default Mail client for the iPhone has become in my opinion outdated, or it's certainly not as advanced as the hardware it resides in. Mail is not fun to navigate, and its latest features don't provide much of a productivity boost. But the just released popular third-party email client, Mailbox (Free), may make Apple's Mail client feel like a third-rate piece of software.
Minimalist For Everything – The Single Reason To Consider A Simpler Gmail & Google Reader [Chrome]
It is ironic that a web service which dominates the world with an austere, barebones interface has a few allied services which are cluttered. In my opinion, Gmail and Google Reader are not very cluttered. Is it because we have learnt to live with them? Whatever might be your opinion, it is also true that they can be made simpler and easier on the eyes.
Don't Unsubscribe! Keep Track of Newsletters, Receipts & More With the Beautiful Azigo
Here’s a task for you. Go to your inbox right now, and count how many newsletters and promotional emails you've received in the past week. How many did you get? 10? 50? 150? How many brands do you get these emails from? 5? 10? Maybe 20? While such emails are sometimes nothing more than spam you can ignore, you sometimes receive them because you actually care about these brands and what they have to say.
Regain Control Over Your Inbox With These 5 Tips For Managing Gmail
Everyone knows that these days, it's pretty difficult to survive or to manage your affairs without email. In fact, most people have two or three emails to manage, so without a good handle on email management, that busy inbox can get out of control pretty fast. I know, you're asking yourself do we really need another article about email management? Aren't we done yet. Well....no.
10 Email Tips for Dealing With Angry, Trollish, or Rude Emails
It's incredibly frustrating to check your email inbox only to find a completely hateful message. Why in the world do people act like this? With that said, you should learn how to defend yourself while on the web. Let me tell you this though: being a jerk isn't a way to do it. To my credit, I've gotten a few hateful emails in my lifetime. In fact, I've sent a few as well! (That makes me an expert on this, right?)
Email Faster & Better With Canned Responses
Don’t have time to cook lunch? No problem, grab a can. Need some camping chow that won’t go bad? Easy, get some canned food. Tired of typing the same email replies? Try canned emails! Think I’m kidding? Think again. Canned responses, or canned replies, are a feature that too many users have never even tried, but once you’ve tried them, there’s no turning back.
Forget Gmail - Outlook.com Also Handles Your Own Email Domain
Now, using a webmail service to host your domain email isn't anything new. Matt covered how you can set up email on your domain using Google Apps. But is Google really the only act in town? Isn't there any other service out there that provides high-quality free online email service with the added bonus of letting you host mail there for your own domain?
Please Note This Email! Some Super-Useful Tools To Help You Add Notes & Annotate Your Gmail Threads
Threaded conversations and smart labels were a start. The former really helped to have end to end conversations, and the later came into it later as an email organizational tool. But what if you want to add something more to a Gmail conversation? For instance, a note or an annotation that tells you. Gmail still lacks a notes feature for tagging a specific email with some extra information that’s of help to you as a future reference.
How to Send Sensitive, Secure Emails, Passwords, and Files Without Fear
So, here’s a common case: You need to share a password with someone, but if you just email it to them, it’s going to languish in their inbox and be exposed to any future hacker that might gain access to their account. Or perhaps you want to share a longer note, but don’t want to email it for the same reason. No matter your scenario, I’ve rounded up several solid ways to get your data across securely and privately.
Email Goes Modern: Three Windows 8 Email Apps
With your shiny new Windows 8 device or upgrade booted up, tiles gleaming at you and winking with useful information, you might take a few moments having a look around before you get the chance to look at the email client. I should add here that not all versions of Windows 8 come with the Microsoft Mail client pre-installed. It really depends on the version and the manufacturer of your Windows 8 computer.
Email - Friend Or Foe? [INFOGRAPHIC]
One of the first things I do in the morning, when I sit down at my desk, is check my email. And my job involves so much email that I can pretty much guarantee that I will spend at least the first hour of my working day getting through all of the new stuff and following up on older emails. It is a tedious part of the job, but unfortunately it's also a fact of life. Every office-based job these days involves sending and receiving email.
How To Make Your Email Message Stand Out In A Cluttered Inbox
Have you ever sent an email you felt was important only to be answered many days later, or worse forgotten about? Granted, sometimes it’s out of your control, but there are things you can do to improve the chances of your email being opened, read and replied to. I can’t promise that these will always work, but I can say that they will make a difference and that overall you’ll see an improvement in communication with your email contacts.
Don't Let E-mail Bring You Down! Use These 4 Browser Plugins To Boost Your Gmail Productivity
There are tons of tools out there that can help with Gmail productivity, and we’ve shown you some excellent ones in the past. If you’re still looking for Mr. right-add-on for your Gmail usage, you should be able to find it below, in this all new list of Gmail browser plugins, which will boost your productivity.
How Do Spammers Find Your Email Address?
Spam is the closest thing we’ll ever find to an Internet plague. No matter who you are, spam will one day find you and you’ll have no choice but to put up with its pestilence. It’s a pandemic that people have been trying to fight for decades, yet it’s still as strong as ever. But how do spammers find you in the first place?
Manage & Collaborate On Email Intense Projects Inside Gmail With Streak [Chrome]
Streak is a powerful Gmail project management add-on for Chrome. It comes with templates for many different types of projects, for example customer support or event planning. In Streak, projects are called pipelines. You can add boxes to your pipelines, fill the boxes with information, e.g. incoming and outgoing email, comments, people responsible etc., and track the progress of each box.