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checking email apps only every 36 hours!
The workflow with Hey, my newly-acquired email app from the folks at Basecamp, has me in an excellent workflow. I’m actually considering that I don’t need to open my email applications but every 36 hours or so. Surreal.
Here’s how:
- The app has allowed me to configure several “notify now” contacts: when these folks email, I get a notification on my phone or desktop
- Everything and everybody else can always wait a day and a half or so, right?
Sure, I could have set up a workflow like this myself—I have tried several workflows in this direction—but I didn’t. I didn’t conceive of it in quite the terms that Hey does. My configurations, because they didn’t nail #1 above, never left me confident that I wasn’t leaving somebody or something important hanging by not checking frequently. (I did however dream of writing an app that would filter notifications by contact to my watch.) I’m feeling confident that the right people and the right information can get through to me when it needs to.
And, maybe—just maybe—I may even start referring to the contents of my conversation, rather than the medium. Oh drag, I need to go do some emailing is not a great way to think about it, but we all do it, right? Better to think about the content: Nice, let me see what my close friends and family need from me or want to inform me about. Perhaps we’ll have a fruitful and joyous interaction. Too often, email kills that sense. But who cares by what medium my family or friends deliver content to me—I’m standing ready to help, listen, respond!
Finally (and tangentially!—I couldn’t restst sharing this awesomeness), Hey does this:
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I just became a very happy customer of 37Signal’s email app, “Hey”. You should check it out. They’ve redesigned the entire email experience.
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