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 as [...]

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If you’re thinking of writing a commercially successful pro email client for Mac OS X, here’s some advice along the lines of what I wrote yesterday:

Make sure you’ve tried a lot of email clients. Try everything you can get your hands on. Really use each one – figure out what makes it different, and what [...]

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Brent Simmons started a discussion yesterday about email apps for OS X. To summarize: Apple Mail doesn’t do enough for everyone, and the alternatives aren’t so great either. But because it is free, there’s no incentive for a third party to do better.

Paul Kafasis agrees, saying “Don’t compete with Free and Don’t compete with Apple”. [...]

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I’ve been dreaming of a new kind of email client, one that only lets you look at a new email once. That’s right – you get to scan it for 30 seconds and then you have to do something with it or it gets archived out of sight. And you can only look at one [...]

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