Today Shawn Blanc and team Sweet Setup released the Calm Inbox course. I’ve watched it, and it is excellent. One point of note, Focused Podcast co-host Mike Schmitz played a significant role in developing this course, and Mike is one of the most thoughtful…
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AppleScript to Link to Apple Mail Message
I’ve always like the way OmniFocus can create links to Apple Mail messages when saving an email as a task. With help from listener Jacob (@evansio), I’ve now got a script that can do that anywhere via a text expander snippet. Here’s the AppleScript:…
Continue reading →A Case Study in Phishing
A few days ago I received this email. I thought it was an excellent example of a phishing attack. If you’ve never heard of it before, phishing is a process where a bad guy sends you an email that looks legitimate in hopes that…
Continue reading →The Email Diet
With the start of a new year, I’m looking at new workflows, this year even more than usual. I’m disappointed that my latest iBook didn’t get released last year and am now looking for ways to get rid of some of the obstacles that got…
Continue reading →The Perils of Your Own Mail Servers
I was at a professional gathering recently when the subject of email security came up. I was surrounded by a group of lawyers that knew next-to-nothing about technology and it made me curious about their thoughts on email servers. Going around the room, I…
Continue reading →Screencast and Workflow for Automating PDFs on iPhone and iPad
I mentioned on a recent episode of Mac Power Users how much I like the workflow I created for automatically creating, dating, naming, and saving PDF files from third party iOS mail clients. Here is is. You can create this workflow yourself from the…
Continue reading →Killing the Email Action Folder
For years now I’ve kept an “action” folder with all of my email accounts. This was particularly useful before I started deferring email with services like SaneBox. However, as of late, the “action” folder has turned into some sort of email purgatory for me.…
Continue reading →Deferred Email
I’ve talked and written before about deferring email. If you’ve never heard of it before, deferring email is the process of making your email disappear for a certain amount of time (usually days) or until a certain date in the future. Some applications do…
Continue reading →Email Field Guide Version 1.2
Speaking of email, I’ve been hard at work updating the Email Field Guide to version 1.2. It’s now live in the iBooks Store. There are a lot of changes: Added additional Gmail backup solution, Backupify Added Google Takeout to archiving chapter Added new section…
Continue reading →Project Management for the Masses Email Interview
I recently did an interview on email with the Project Management for the Masses podcast. Cesar Abeid is a great host and, of course, insanely organized. How could he not be with a podcast of that title?
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