We recently told you about the “second inbox” that your Facebook has, and how it won’t give you notifications for new messages inside it. This trick will fix part of the problem, letting you receive notifications from specific senders. More »
Even if you filter all email into a “trusted trio” of folders or rely on Gmail’s smart priority inbox feature, you might still have an overwhelming number of emails requiring your attention. To be more productive, focus on the “wheelhouse” emails. More »
As part of a general update to its messaging system for buyers and sellers, from today eBay will begin deleting any messages older than six months in user ‘My Messages’ inboxes. If you have messages stored on eBay itself that you want to keep, forward them to your personal email account now or it’s likely they’ll be gone within a few days.[eBay]
When we taught you the first Google Wave search you should know (with:public), Wave automatically added public waves you read to your inbox, and an empty inbox quickly became hard to come by. Today, Wave fixes that with a handy Follow/Unfollow button. More »
Mozilla’s Raindrop project showed us its one-inbox-to-rule-them-all mission, but a Mozilla designer now shows us how Raindrop might actually pull that off on mobile phones. The designs are impressive, combining email, Twitter, Facebook and other conversations into one organised stream. More »
Productivity doesn’t occur in a bubble. No matter how meticulous you might be with the flow of your organisational system, if nobody plays along it wreaks havoc on your output. Train people to play along! More »
The Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog writes up a guide to using Outlook’s categories and search folders to organise your messy inbox and prevent email overload. More »
If we had to guess, we’d say that Gmail’s latest Labs feature, putting an unread message count first in the title bar and tabs, was probably inspired by a certain Firefox add-on …
