![]() ![]() Moah will schedule external meetings on Mondays and Tuesdays, and pay-it-forward meetings on Fridays to chat with newer entrepreneurs.īoomerang’s Bookable Schedules feature, which adds a live calendar within the body of an email, is a go-to for Moah. ![]() Meetings are not allowed at all on Wednesdays. Boomerang’s weekly meetings are always stacked on Thursdays, and the rest of the week is as meeting-free as possible. Moah, like other productivity experts Protocol has spoken to, recommends limiting weekly meetings to one day of the week. Boomerang’s general manager Mai-Chi Vu uses them to remind team members to file expense reports, log vacations and enroll in insurance (you can also set up these reminders in Slack). If your company lives in email (though most in the tech space have found communication hubs like Slack more preferable), recurring reminders are also helpful for standard administrative tasks. “Those are all automated so that when we show up for the meeting, we're not spending time on, ‘Ph, where’s this document?’” Moah said. The reminder will prompt people to send necessary material and give an overview of what the meeting is about. To ensure everyone’s prepared for meetings, Boomerang employees use recurring reminder emails that go out the afternoon before. Standardize meetings and automate reminders “That usually gets me responsive enough that I’m not blocking anybody, but also not sucking me into email the entire day,” Moah said. Outlook has a similar auto-advance option as well.Īfter this initial scan, Moah won’t return to her inbox until after lunch. The feature is turned off by default, so it’s often underused. She religiously uses Gmail’s auto-advance feature, which automatically opens the next email after you delete, archive or mute an email. Only then will she take a stab at her inbox. The very first thing she does is absorb that list and figure out when she’ll work on each task. That way, she knows exactly what to do when she starts work in the morning. Moah tries to set herself up for success by taking time at the end of the day to write down her to-dos for the next day. She considers herself at the peak of her mental clarity and energy in the morning: “I don’t want to use it up making decisions on email,” she said. You might be tempted to start your day with a routine inbox check. “Having Inbox Zero itself is not a very sustainable goal you’re just continuously putting energy into processing junk, and that takes so much of your mental energy throughout the day,” Moah said. People who keep their inbox open all day might easily get distracted. Moah says she understands the appeal, but she worries that focusing on it drains valuable mental energy that can be devoted to other work. Inbox Zero is a key selling point of another email client, Superhuman, as well as a popular tech concept in general. Closing an unedited draft should automatically save the draft back to its original location with no option to discard.Boomerang may be an email tool, but Moah doesn’t want to spend all of her time in her inbox. This is not normal behavior for any mail client I have ever used before. When editing a scheduled message, the message is sent immediately upon saving the edit rather than adhering to the scheduled time.ĮmailClient also forces you to choose between saving and discarding a draft that you were merely reviewing. I have always used multiple clients to manage my mail (web, desktop client, and mobile client) and have never had this experience beforeĢ. Version-control issues where an edit to a draft made in the Boomerang client is overwritten by an older draft on the office 365 server. I just deleted EmailClient, because I have repeatedly experienced the following two unacceptable problems:ġ. It is connected to my work office 365 email account, which I also manage using the default apple mail client. It has major glitches, and you should be very careful before using it. I’m shocked at all the amazing reviews for EmailClient. While not as attractive as Boomerang- Outlook is a better fit for my very basic needs. What good is having the bells and whistles if it cannot do the basic things you need it to do. There are no settings to control the frequency in which EmailClient fetches. Believe me, I’ve toyed with all the notification settings both on EmailClient and on my phone to make sure that everything is turned on. A lot of the time I’d have to go into EmailClient to refresh before discovering that I’ve missed several messages. It’s good to look at but I’ve struggled with basic functions like: receiving my emails in a timely fashion or getting notified when said email finally comes in. I think it’s a cool feature on any email platform.īut the email app. I’ve installed a boomerang add-on to my gmail and it works perfectly. ![]() I’ve taken a break from Outlook to try things out with Boomerang since it’s the hot new thing right now. ![]()
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