Last week, Chuq van Rospach had a tear of great posts about email and online communication in general. I already linked to his first two, about the value (and certain doom) of an email charter here. He then went on to discuss what he’s learned about how to manage email without first trying to change [...]

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Chuq van Rospach shares some insight on the long battle to make email work better socially: In part one, he argues that any attempt to codify good behavior will fail to create utopia, but may influence future tools and enough people to be worth trying. In part two, he says the only real way to [...]

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The Postbox team posted another tease for their upcoming redesign in version 2.5, this time the new message view. I’m not going to re-post all of these, but I thought this one was worth pointing out because it shows some of the thinking behind the changes – and hints at an interesting design principle: Detail [...]

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Over at the Postbox blog, they’re teasing the upcoming version 2.5 with a post about a New Addressing Widget. There’s only a screenshot, but it looks like a nice usability improvement – it looks more Mac-like. To and CC are in separate fields, so it’s easier to add a CC without using the mouse now, [...]

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About 700 words on how a client should display old reference emails that you need to look at, but not reply to. I decide that all the current clients I tried don’t support this well, and I argue that they should.

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About a year ago, I decided to start a separate blog called ‘mikechecksmail’ on Tumblr to talk about the details of mail clients on OS X. I posted a few real articles there, then let things sit for a while as a dissertation, a new house, and a new baby have taken up my free [...]

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A conversation view for Thunderbird: Thunderbird Conversations – GitHub. From the screenshots, it looks pretty good. I downloaded it but lost energy after realizing that it’s only compatible with beta versions of Thunderbird 3.3. I have 3.0 or something, and the latest released version is 3.1, I guess. Or whatever.

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Link: A quick note about Mobile Me Mail beta Apple’s Mobile Me mail – a webmail that always struck me as trying too hard to be like a desktop mail client – has been re-designed, and it added two features that I completely agree with in a mail client – widescreen view (a message should [...]

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Link: http://inessential.com/2004/05/25/rss_router Here’s a post from the recesses of memory. Back in 2004, Brent Simmons said: … your feedreader, like your browser and email app, is a hub of information. It makes sense to want to route information from the hub to other applications. This is a great point – and I’d like to expand [...]

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I watched Merlin Mann’s Google Tech Talk about processing email yesterday, and even though I’d followed his posts on Inbox Zero when they came out, it’s good to get a reminder, and Merlin’s an entertaining speaker – I recommend you watch it. He talks about strategies for keeping an empty inbox based on processing email [...]

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