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Useful features

• Use "+<some_label>" in email addresses to indicate what an email is about.
  • Example: "Send an email to nathan.wailes+rhymecraft@gmail.com".

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
  • levelsio - If you can’t express yourself by email, you’re not worthy of anyone’s time
    • "Ask me what you want concisely, and I’ll get it to you ASAP. We don’t need to do “jump on a call” for that. Let’s both save each other time."