Posted by Paolo
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:16:00 GMT
Well, not a great post today but I wanted to report a great video I discovered trough www.presentationzen.com. I hearthly share its content so… go on!
I have a bad relationship with emails. It’s not that I don’t like them but I think that checking the inbox too often is a compulsive action, not a necessity.
I hate those email clients which notify me when a new mail arrives. It’s distracting… it’s totally unproductive… I mean, the power of emails is that you can receive them when you’re offline or busy and you can read them when you want to. I said WHEN YOU WANT TO.
Whenever I find myself hitting F5 on Gmail I feel like a dog waiting for a cookie. And even when people are not compulsively checking their inboxes… they’re probably scanning their past messages in order to organize their days.
Scanning messages over and over again. Not a good practice if you want to get things done.
Are email clients becoming our new to-do managers? Should we spend so much time on our email inbox? Should our lives be email driven?
On this subject Merlin Mann gave us a great presentation inlined here:
Posted by Paolo
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:38:00 GMT
It seems that the long awaited GMail for your domain has opened to the public for testing pourposes. If you want to manage all your domain’s addresses via GMail now you can ask for an account.
This colud solve the hassle of managing and mantaining emails on your servers, freeing you from wasting time on stuff that’s not your core business.
You can imagine how important is this for small startups that need to stay focused and be higly productive all the time.
Just go here and share your thoughts about it.
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Posted by Paolo
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:03:00 GMT
This quick post is just to let you know the long awaited Google Calendar is finally available to the masses. I played a bit with it but haven’t found the killer trick yet. Maybe I’m just not interested in calendar apps in general. I never used them to keep my time organized and who knows me can sadly confirm that.
In Google family, I’m far more interested in Google Reader as I find it a really snappy and useful tool. I don’t like standalone readers. I got so used to the GMail approach that to some extent I’m trying NOT to download and install software anymore… Maybe the fact I’m switching between different computers during the day forces me having this approach. What just make me a bit blue is you cannot easily switch between GMail and Google Reader. I Mean there’s no way to share the same session or integrate the two tools. I used to be subscribed to feeds I’m interested in via R-Mail so got used to read posts via GMail. This let me open just one window. Now If I want to use Google Reader I’m forced to open another window/tab on purpose, and I’m afraid sometime I won’t do it. Having both inside the same interface kind of let me save some little time.
Maybe we could hack up a Greasemonkey script to ‘integrate’ someway these two kids…
Anyhow, I’ll give Google Reader a try for a while, as it seems promising, and will report back all my feelings about it.
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