Comments on: 20 Email Productivity Tips To Become an Email Master

By: Athena

Athena — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:56:13 +0000

I use gmail, but I also started for paying for emailbundle.com services. I liked it better than the Yahoo service I was paying $20 a month for. It takes all email from all my addresses and compiles it and sends me a report. Its in categories that are so much easier to organize and it takes me a fraction of the time that it took to check 4 other email addresses. I have one for business, personal, newsletters, etc and one for friends and family.

By: enda

enda — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:54:35 +0000

I wonder how i will not be seen as spam as i send bulk mails?

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:34:19 +0000

I’ve heard the Google Wave will one day replace Google mail. I’ve had my Wave account for about 3 months now, and I doubt this will happen any time soon. That said, I still use Yahoo mail for my personal stuff. It would be nice if I could combine the two.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:23:45 +0000

Gmail is without doubt the best email service to use for productivity. I also liked the GTD add on as well, helped with sorting.

By: S Ahsan

S Ahsan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:06:48 +0000

I have like 10 gmail accounts added on my iphone. This makes it so easy to go through all of them at once. Yahoo put me off long time ago.

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:05:09 +0000

Excellent tips! Just yesterday I deleted over one hundred useless tags I had created to GMail. I “organized” my mails through these, but I never used them, I always used the search! Now I moved into using just a couple of folders, a bit like the “trusted trio” as introduced by Lifehacker and Gina Trapani and Merlin Mann’s five folder system.

With this, I cleaned my filters as well (nearly as many as tags). I’ve been keeping my inbox clean for some time already, but now when the “backend” is clean too, I can start looking into other things, like the canned responses which I have totally forgotten.

By: Julian Simpson

Julian Simpson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:40:19 +0000

I can’t emphasise the email subject enough. The subject should be the message, and the message just there to expand on the subject. You’ll get a much better response from people when they know what your email is about – before they open it.

By: Aglolink

Aglolink — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:26:35 +0000

I always use gmail as the best communication, more friendly and safe for me. hope will provide an additional tool to facilitate its.

By: mohsin

mohsin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:35:27 +0000

You are right, I have completely quit outlook, and now my GMAIL account acts as the POP3 client also. GMAIL allows us to configure 5 POP3 accounts, so now my personal email and my company email all comes into one box and I can reply with the same email address on which email is delivered. GMAIL is really a breeze in managing multiple email accounts.
I will be grateful if you make a post on how to manage subscriptions and mass email lists, apart from the all time favorite awber.
I have checked PHP list, but it is a little technical, can you share your experience with us.

By: Chester

Chester — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:19:27 +0000

Gmail is the one! Yahoo should start working on their emails. Gmail is such a big threat to them.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:22:53 +0000

I was using yahoo mail before and even paid 20.00 per year for premium services so I can download it via pop3.

But when I learned that gmail was offering the same service (pop3) for free I immediately switched to gmail.

By: Ilija Brajkovic

Ilija Brajkovic — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:00:15 +0000

I use Google apps for my primary email, but I prefer to access it through Outlook 2007. For me, it’s much better solution. If I don’t have my laptop with me, I can access it with my iPhone or web interface.

Soon, I will also start using Exchange 2010 email server, which is, for me, a better solution than Gmail.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:43:11 +0000

I absolutely agree that Gmail has it all. Keyboard shortcuts is definitely something I will have to take more time to look at.

Also, when used on an iPhone Gmail is a great way to keep all of your files and thoughts in one easy place.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:35:26 +0000

I think Yahoo! Mail Plus has more features. It’s $20 per year but I’ve used it for so long that I don’t mind paying. No ads, either. I don’t want to use Gmail because it’s too much info with one company… Android phone contacts, Analytics, Feedburner, etc.

By: Free money income

Free money income — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:20:34 +0000

I definitely agree here. I have been using yahoo eversince and when i found out about Gmail, i will definitely never go back to yahoo mail anymore.

By: Eric C

Eric C — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:17:46 +0000

I love topics like this. All of these pieces of advice are right on, though I need to focus on number 3 and number 4.

By: Debojyoti

Debojyoti — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:41:07 +0000

@Daniel
I don’t think the response time is much different between GMail and Yahoo. Buy as you said it lacks some feature. Thats true. Also I find the ads very distracting. Still I like Yahoo. Maybe its just be. Maybe because Yahoo is my homepage.

Will try to use my Gmail account more from now to see if I get used to it.

By: Agent Deepak

Agent Deepak — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:44:26 +0000

Gmail is best. I am still learning to do new stuffs with it.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:28:00 +0000

Good stuff. Email used to suck up a lot of my time until I started wizzing through and not reading every single email. I also have a day set aside to clean it up (usually saturdays). I’m going to have to give a few of these other ones a try though. Good list!

By: Sebastien Page

Sebastien Page — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:07:21 +0000

Nice one! I really like the tip about canned responses. I never thought about it and I actually used to save “most emailed responses” as a draft and copy/paste them. Cumbersome!

@SebastienPage

By: Cory Grassell

Cory Grassell — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:58:07 +0000

While you are correct about crafting creative subject lines, there is more to it. Email providers need to be wary of SPAM filters and the general rules for special characters, character count, and words that can get caught up in these filters.

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:41:55 +0000

@Debojyoti, in my opinion Gmail is much better than Yahoo!. I still have an account on Yahoo!, but I really get frustrated when I need to use it.

For one thing Gmail is faster and cleaner. Then you also have a bunch of features on Gmail that Yahoo! lacks (e.g., canned responses, search parameters and all the stuff from Gmail labs).

By: Debojyoti

Debojyoti — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:32:42 +0000

Hey Daniel
I always use Yahoo. Not that I don’t like Gmail. Any reason why you are so Gmail biased? I mean Yahoo and Gmail are comparable, aren’t they?