#ProdChat – 03/15/2017 – Email Productivity Apps and Addons
On March 15, 2017, #ProdChat discussed the topic, Email Productivity Apps and Addons. Watch the slideshow to see what the productivity enthusiasts on #ProdChat had to say about “Email Productivity Apps and Addons.” Enjoy!
Questions:
- What is your current personal email app? How well does it satisfy your email needs?
- What is your current work email software? And, is it doing well for you?
- What is the best desktop (Mac, Win, other) email software?
- What is the best mobile (Android, iOS, Win) email app?
- What are some good Web browser-based email clients?
- What’s your favorite email addon that adds/changes the interface (e.g., adds a button, changes the theme, etc.)? Why?
- Are there any email addons that help you manage email attachments well? How?
- Do you have any email apps that manage email newsletters? Pro’s and con’s?
- What are some email addons that work in the background with your email to make you more productive?
- Will you try any of the email apps or addons discussed today? Which, and why?
Raw transcript:
(For some reason, the tweet backup tool did not capture any of @rsidneysmith’s tweets during the tweetchat.)
| User | Tweet | Time (GMT +0) |
| xianfox | Good evening #ProdChat | Wed Mar 15 23:59:29 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | Good evening #ProdChat | Wed Mar 15 23:59:29 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | Hello everyone! #prodchat | Wed Mar 15 23:59:59 +0000 2017 |
| rogue_crayon99 | Good evening everyone! Jay a.k.a. Disrupted in DC #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:01:08 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | Good to be back after two weeks of judging band contests into the evening each night. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:01:37 +0000 2017 |
| ShannonRenee | Hi #ProdChat. What’s shakin’? https://t.co/o8gF0MWL9F | Thu Mar 16 00:01:46 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | Frank Buck from Alabama. I write and speak on organization and time management. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:02:40 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | Brian from Wisconsin. IT consultant. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:03:23 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | @rsidneysmith This was concert band. I was judging sight reading. The band is given a piece they have never seen before… #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:06:10 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | … And judged on how they play it the first time. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:06:42 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | I downgraded my work PC to IE9 because it works better with the company DB that hasn’t been updated since the Bush administration. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:06:42 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | #productivity success is composing an online course that serves as a book study for my book. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:07:46 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | Hi everyone #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:10:49 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A1 I use Gmail on all devices. Works well for me. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:11:08 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | Your welcome it was wonderful joint effort #prodchat https://t.co/nykPou5BqD | Thu Mar 16 00:11:15 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | Arriving late to #ProdChat from Maryland. | Thu Mar 16 00:11:54 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | A1: Airmail on iOS and Mailbird on Windows 10. For the work account it’s Outlook or OWA. I love Airmail and Mailbird. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:12:56 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | @rsidneysmith Doing good, Ray. Just got back from a Chamber of Commerce mixer. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:13:40 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | !!! I work in cybersecurity tweeting from Washington DC ill pretend i didn’t read that #prodchat https://t.co/leEoo8osxa | Thu Mar 16 00:14:16 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | @rsidneysmith How do you like Newtonmail? #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:14:26 +0000 2017 |
| rogue_crayon99 | A1 I shuffle between the iPhone’s mail app and gmail/yahoo/etc because some fxns aren’t available or easier to do #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:15:18 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | A1 My personal email app is Gmail. It’s OK, but I’m not thrilled sometimes when I have to sort through old mail to find things. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:15:56 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A2 For me it’s all the same.. @Gmail #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:16:32 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | A2: I use Outlook at work. Terrible experience because it’s either OWA or thru Citrix. #ProdChat Completely unintuitive. | Thu Mar 16 00:16:38 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | Tweetbot acting weird for some reason I’m not seeing the #Prodchat questions 🙁 | Thu Mar 16 00:17:12 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | @rsidneysmith Good to hear. I’m keeping my eye on them. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:17:19 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | @rsidneysmith Good to hear. I’m keeping my eye on them. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:17:19 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | @rsidneysmith I’m in the Northern Anne Arundel Chamber, but the mixer at Maryland Live included all county chambers. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:17:40 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | A1 i’m very sad i finally had to boot dispatch email (no active updates) testing @newtonmailapp but not sure abt subcr 4 mail #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:18:39 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | @rsidneysmith Yea, we’re getting a new project lead and I’m hoping we can convice him to move regular communications out of it. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:19:30 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | A2 The work email is Outlook, which works fairly well. It’d be better if sender sorting went beyond the first letter. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:20:00 +0000 2017 |
| OmnipoTony | A2 my work email is @gmail and completely prefer it over Outlook #prodchat https://t.co/VwDGhiNHkT | Thu Mar 16 00:20:42 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A3 No clue in this one. All I use is Gmail in the cloud. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:21:38 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | A3 I don’t think I’ve ever used any email apps besides Outlook and Gmail. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:21:48 +0000 2017 |
| 2Patra | Late 4 #prodchat after Tai Chi Hate my business email (NetSol) & love AOL but trying to learn gmail…so will be listening 2night | Thu Mar 16 00:21:57 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | A2 outlook is life isn’t the government world we use outlook 2010 so that’s that #Prodchat https://t.co/L55fTgTe5b | Thu Mar 16 00:22:38 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | @rsidneysmith I’d love to, but I haven’t met him yet. #ProdChat Hopefully we can work something better out. | Thu Mar 16 00:23:02 +0000 2017 |
| ShannonRenee | A1 I use Gmail and Hotmail (showing my age LOL) for personal emails. I use each for different purposes. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:24:06 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | A3 the last time i used desktop mail regularly Eudora lol maybe outlook light when pop3 // pre webmail life #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:25:02 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | A4: I love the power and ease of use of Airmail. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:25:42 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | A4 can folks give there android mail recommendations testing a pixel #Prodchat is @newtonmailapp ios only??? | Thu Mar 16 00:26:12 +0000 2017 |
| ShannonRenee | A1 For even more compartmentalization, I have two personal Gmail accounts. Yep, I do & use each daily. #ProdChat https://t.co/boOMstC1io | Thu Mar 16 00:26:20 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | A1 I have Gmail on my android, and that seems to do the job there. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:26:22 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A3 Wow, haven’t heard Eudora mentioned in…well…I can’t remember when. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:26:48 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | What platforms does it cover? #Prodchat https://t.co/48C61uyNTR | Thu Mar 16 00:26:56 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | @caplady1225 As far as I know it’s only iOS and Mac. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:27:30 +0000 2017 |
| ShannonRenee | A2 At my previous two jobs, they used Outlook and it was WONDERFUL! It has a ton of features for businesses. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:28:03 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | @rsidneysmith I picked Mailbird because it’s fairly close to Airmail. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:28:32 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A3 I used to use Outlook. Used it for 10 years and liked it. It was also calendar, task list, contacts, and notes. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:29:32 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A4 I know I sound like a broken record, but it’s Gmail on the Android. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:30:52 +0000 2017 |
| prodbookgrp | Did you miss a #productivity book club discussion and want to listen to it? Catch up here: https://t.co/RzMPV84Dn2… https://t.co/YObi8uFhG3 | Thu Mar 16 00:31:00 +0000 2017 |
| ShannonRenee | A4 I’m an Android and Google gal. I’ve bought the tee-shirts, sent postcards and swallowed the pill. #ProdChat https://t.co/xG6irlxbGY | Thu Mar 16 00:31:49 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | A5 I couldn’t tell you anything about browser-based email. I’ve had a sheltered childhood. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:35:32 +0000 2017 |
| ShannonRenee | Gotta skedaddle #ProdChat, have a good evening folks. https://t.co/G2c7oflRVV | Thu Mar 16 00:36:42 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | A6 dark theme always a plus, apps that show unread only & integration to send to other services #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:37:09 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | A6: The only thing I ever used was Boomerang before all the apps had snooze. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:38:35 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | @rsidneysmith what self hosted webmail vs mail like gmail/outlook 365 not sure if i understand #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:39:38 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | What was Q6? For some reason, it didn’t post on tchat.io #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:40:01 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | That reminds me i tried out @sanebox few months not bad service for reducing load and reminders #Prodchat https://t.co/68UTSREEOb | Thu Mar 16 00:40:40 +0000 2017 |
| Tinu | RT @ShannonRenee: A2 At my previous two jobs, they used Outlook and it was WONDERFUL! It has a ton of features for businesses. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:41:21 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | A7: My secret weapon for handling attachments isn;t really an addon; it’s Evernote. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:42:28 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | @DrFrankBuck tchat.io ? going to check out as i’m not seeing questions for some reason my client having meltdown #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:42:43 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | @DrFrankBuck Q6: What’s your fav email addon that adds/changes the interface (e.g., adds a button, changes the theme, etc.)? Why? #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:43:34 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A7 I also like to forward important email to @evernote and like that it sends the attachments too. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:44:15 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | Checking out tchat.io right now very cool good to IRC’ish feel #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:44:54 +0000 2017 |
| prodbookgrp | Join us for our next #Productivity Book Group live discussion on @BrigidSchulte’s book, Overwhelmed!… https://t.co/xr4Uwwftu7 | Thu Mar 16 00:45:00 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | A7 google drive or i agree with @xianfox send to my evernote email addy for keeping #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:45:38 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A6 I use use an add on from Hubspot that tells me when someone has opened my email. Really useful. Also let me schedule email.. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:46:22 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | A8 that’s one of my favorite Features i send the newsletters i read to my @evernote email; does great job keeping original format #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:47:18 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A8 Haven’t used unenrollme. I just liberally click Unnsubscribe. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:49:13 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | @rsidneysmith HMM you can send a full podcast to @evernote will have to try that out asap #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:49:47 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | @rsidneysmith @caplady1225 I do most of my read later pile in Instapaper. I keep @evernote for permanent filing. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:50:02 +0000 2017 |
| 2Patra | TTFN all, thx #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:50:25 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A8 I use the Priority Inbox setting on @Gamil, so that puts all of the newsletters in the “everything else” section. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:51:06 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | A9: Gmail Filters. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:51:11 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | @rsidneysmith ok that was my next question so i still have to get the raw file than send to @evernote #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:52:12 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | A9 I like assistant.to to schedule appointments when working with just a few people. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:53:23 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | @rsidneysmith And that workaround even works for those using the free version. #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:56:11 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | A10 yes i plan to follow up on a lot of these tools over the weekend given I’m in the market for new primary email app #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:56:22 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | A10: I’m going to look into @owncloud. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 00:56:28 +0000 2017 |
| DrFrankBuck | Thanks everyone! #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:58:39 +0000 2017 |
| caplady1225 | We got over the hump folks enjoy the end of the week #prodchat | Thu Mar 16 00:59:09 +0000 2017 |
| JKatzaman | @rsidneysmith Thanks, Ray. See you next #prodchat. | Thu Mar 16 00:59:22 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | Good chat tonight. Got some good takeaways. #ProdChat Have a productive week. | Thu Mar 16 00:59:34 +0000 2017 |
| xianfox | @rsidneysmith @ownCloud Yeah, but it looks like it may have some significant features I’m looking for. Thanks for the tip. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 01:00:39 +0000 2017 |
| JoysOfMercy | @prodchat Late dinner! Totally missed it. Oh well. Catch you next time #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 01:04:36 +0000 2017 |
| mailbird | RT @xianfox: @rsidneysmith I picked Mailbird because it’s fairly close to Airmail. #ProdChat | Thu Mar 16 08:09:38 +0000 2017 |
| rsidneysmith | Join #ProdChat for our next “playful” #productivity topic on March 22, 2017! https://t.co/YfIH85vZ8N https://t.co/h1CMnXLQ1J | Thu Mar 16 17:03:55 +0000 2017 |
| rsidneysmith | #ProdChat is a weekly #productivity chat. Join us for different topics Wednedays at 8pm ET. https://t.co/NJDSyG0EeI https://t.co/N7iM8A4Bfk | Fri Mar 17 14:00:14 +0000 2017 |