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Public Waves Get Follow/Unfollow Feature In Google Wave
6:30AM Adam Pash | 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 »
Communicate
Raindrop Looks Like An Awesome Universal Inbox In Concept Designs
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | 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 »
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Increase Productivity By Training People To Use Your Inboxes
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | 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 »
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Triage Your Email Inbox With Outlook Search Folders
4:00AM The How-To Geek | 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 »
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Gmail Puts Unread Message Counts First In Tabs, Title Bars
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | 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 … More »
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Merlin Mann on Why You Should Delete Dead Mail
12:05AM Kevin Purdy | Productivity writer and Inbox Zero advocate Merlin Mann shares some of his recent updates to his talk about email-wrangling, including a bit of advanced common sense about why stashing away your emails isn’t productive. Acting on them, and then killing ‘em off, Mann says, is where you want to be: The idea here is that you probably don’t have a place in your home or office where you store the shells from every peanut you ever ate. If you did, you’d definitely want to organise them by the year in which you ate them, perhaps keeping separate jars per-month or per-location where you ate the nut. You know. For posterity. More »
