Table of contents
Child pages
Useful features
- Use "+<some_label>" in email addresses to indicate what an email is about.
Tools / Extensions
- Gmail Delay-Send
- Yang was the way I found out about this one.
- Boomerang
- This is extremely helpful for setting reminders to follow up on a conversation if the other person doesn't reply.
- Boomerang Calendar
- This solves the problem of having to do a lot of back-and-forth emails with someone to schedule a time to do something.
- I love this one!
- Labels and filters to organize email
- It would be nice if there was some way for the administrator to create certain folders and filters for everyone to get slack-like functionality...
- PixelBlock
- Explanation: This prevents people from seeing when you've opened their emails.
Common problems people encounter
- Forgetting to reply to / handle an email.
- Forgetting to follow up on an email if the other person never replies.
- Boomerang has a "Follow up on this if no one responds" feature which solves this problem.
- Being unable to find an email (typically an email from years ago).
- Having a lot of back-and-forth emails to schedule a time to do something.
- Boomerang Calendar solves this problem, but I remember it being buggy when I first tried it. I should try it again.
Questions
- Why use labels? What are they useful for?
How to communicate
- Put the recipient's first name in the subject line and at the top of the email.
- This was advice from David M. that I agree with.
- Be concise