Episode 14 of my Better Email Management series is now on YouTube. I discuss a few Gmail settings (that exist in similar form on most other email clients as well) I use to be more efficient. I conclude with an introduction of using email templates to have a set of canned messages you can easily add to your outgoing messages to save you from having to type the same thing in over and over again. Gmail uses templates for this and most clients have a way to use multiple signatures to the same effect, even if they don’t offer templates. Hope you find a tip or two here to help streamline your workflow.
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Master Email Search
I’ve posted a new addition (Episode 13) of my YouTube series and Better Email Management. This one talks about using search to quickly find your emails. Mastering search helps make your email sessions more efficient for a couple reasons. One, of course, is you can quickly and easily find an email you need to refer to, and another is a bit less obvious, but if you are facile at search, you don’t have to spend as much time thinking about how to store and organize your emails. Instead of creating a hierarchy of email folders or labels, and then having to remember what you did and how you handled an email that spanned multiple categories, you can just be confident that your searches will find what you need, freeing up your mind to concentrate on the work at hand, not the logistics of email management.
I focus on Gmail, but other clients have similar search abilities, so do a search and find out what’s relevant for your client.
Hope you find this helpful!
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Turn off new email notification dots in Firefox tabs
I decided recently to try out Firefox again as a daily browser, but almost stopped early in the process when I couldn’t see a setting to turn off the new email notification dots Firefox was placing on my email tabs. I don’t want those pings on my attention to constantly note all the new incoming emails, so I always turn all email notifications off. (See my Productivity blog entries and YouTube series for more on this.) A web search revealed a solution, but it’s not straightforward so I made a video about it and include the instructions here.
- Turn on the flag that enables customizations.
new tab -> about:config
search for UserProfile
then set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true - Find your firefox profile directory.
Menu -> Help -> More Troubleshooting Information
Find Profile Directory on page - Go to your profile directory and create a directory named chrome if it doesn’t already exist
- Go to the chrome directory and create userChrome.css, if it doesn’t exist
- Make sure first line in userChrome.css is
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); - Add the following below the @namespace line
/* Completely hide the "title changed" notification dot on pinned tabs */
.tabbrowser-tab > .tab-stack > .tab-content[pinned][titlechanged] {
background-image: none !important;
} - restart firefox
Hope this works for you and you find it useful. I did this on Firefox version 88, but it should work for a range of versions.
- Turn on the flag that enables customizations.