EMAIL.
Somewhere along the timeline of technology and man's innovation, we have replaced speaking with typing. Email was supposed to be a more convenient and paperless means of faxing. But now, people have replaced email with conversation itself. I have at times been guilty of this as well. There's a grassroots campaign going around to try and fix this. Bring emails back to where they were supposed to be. The drive is called FIVE SENTENCES. As they state:
THE PROBLEM
E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it.
THE SOLUTION
Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it's too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.
five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It's that simple.
I'm trying my best to stick this. So no offense if you get an email from me and it seems short, curt, and to the point.
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Speaking of emails...ever accidentally and embarassingly send an email to the wrong person? Or worse? Call someone out to be an asshole and for some reason, end up sending it to THAT person. I've done it. We all have done. And it sucks. You start thinking about ways to break into that person's office and deleting it before they read their email. Well Outlook has a nifty simple feature to help you in these situations. I'm trying to find something similar in Mac's iMail, but to no avail so far.
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I accidentally left my digital camera on record while I was typing up an email. Came out pretty cool and for some reason, I find it quite hypnotic.
THE PROBLEM
E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it.
THE SOLUTION
Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it's too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.
five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It's that simple.
I'm trying my best to stick this. So no offense if you get an email from me and it seems short, curt, and to the point.
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Speaking of emails...ever accidentally and embarassingly send an email to the wrong person? Or worse? Call someone out to be an asshole and for some reason, end up sending it to THAT person. I've done it. We all have done. And it sucks. You start thinking about ways to break into that person's office and deleting it before they read their email. Well Outlook has a nifty simple feature to help you in these situations. I'm trying to find something similar in Mac's iMail, but to no avail so far.
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I accidentally left my digital camera on record while I was typing up an email. Came out pretty cool and for some reason, I find it quite hypnotic.
posted by jeffstaple | 5:20 PM
7 Comments:
Who still uses Outlook or any other email client? Web based email is THE!
Did you manage to keep it within 5 sentences? ;) but seriously, great point on the need for brevity.
I think i found somethig that can solve your problem.
It`s not that simple like the outlook feature because you have to set it up for every single email you will send.
you can download this script here:
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
after installing this package
you write your email then saving it to drafts.
after this klick on the email an run the script schedule delivery out oft the script menu on the right menu bar.
set up the delievery time and and you`re done.
on this site you can find a lot more usefull mail extensions:
http://www.hawkwings.net/plugins.htm
best regards
steffen
What the F are you talking about? MS Outlook is a global business standard.
Search and Destroy? Hands on Homerow, Son!
Youtube is now going to be flooded with videos like this ;-)
Ha. It's the Staple Pigeon peck.
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