Posts Tagged ‘mail’

Handling Mail Overload: The Hard Copy Edition

Checking my mail is part of my daily routine, rain or shine. I'm not talking about all those messages on my computer, either. I'm talking about the paper stuff that the mailman brings by every day but Sunday. I don't know about you, but I still get plenty of the paper stuff. I keep wondering why all these catalogs keep showing up in my mailbox when emailing me about new… Continue reading

September 11 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: junk mail, letter, mail | 17 comments»

Postful – Send Email to Mailing Address

After the Google Paper gag, I bet a lot of people were thinking, "That's not such a bad idea". Well, it would be useful if you could send emails to mailing addresses like normal letters. Or even receive actual letters in your email? Postful does just that.

1. Send emails to mailing addresses through Postful- digital to physical.
2. Receive emails from physical letters via a personal Postful mailbox etc -

April 17 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: email, letter, mail, paper | 4 comments»

Micro Hack: Clean up Gmail Even More

I never realized this little trick about Google's Gmail, so I thought I'd pass it on to you, just in case. If you want to keep something in Gmail, but don't need it right away, use the ARCHIVE button. This pulls it out of the inbox view, and keeps your inbox cleaner. I have lots of email that I have to keep for reference at this point, mostly about conversations… Continue reading

September 25 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: gmail, google, hacks, mail, tips | 7 comments»

Does Apple’s Mail.app Stink?

I'm a Mac user, and have been since day 1. I had one of the first 128K babies in my town way back when. And I'm rockin the new Intel Mac Mini with OSX Tiger, and I tell people every day when they ask about video editing and podcast creation, "Dude, just go get a Mac." But I'm not a Mail.app user. First off, I admit a bias towards web-side… Continue reading

August 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: apple, Communication, email, gmail, mail, mail.app | 14 comments»

Track your Parcel using Package Alert Service

There is a cool service called Package Alert Service. Once you input the tracking number (UPS or Fedex) and your email address, Package Alert will send you notification by email whenever if there are any changes on the status. This ia probably a pretty good way to track things because you wouldn't want to pull any data, for instance going to a web site and find out if the status… Continue reading

January 3 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: mail, service, web | 3 comments»

Get some things done in Apple Mail

Tim Gaden over at his Apple Mail blog talks about his setup in Apple Mail with GTD. In addition to the Delete, Action, Waiting For, Sometime (Tickle File), and File actions, he also uses MailTags keyword in Apple Mail to help him on some of the actions: ... The Action rule applies a MailTags keyword (Action) and changes the email’s colour in the Viewer window to red. The Waiting For rule applies… Continue reading

November 21 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: apple, gtd, mail, software | no comments»