Nov 6, 2009

I Suck at Email

No really, I’m terrible at responding to email. I blame my iPhone. I was bad at email before the iPhone, but now I’m absolutely horrible at it. Here’s the issue:

  1. I get an email on my iPhone. iPhone pings to let me know.
  2. I read the email. Email is now marked as read.
  3. If I need to respond to the email, I don’t, because I’m on my iPhone and thus am probably too busy to type out a long email on the iPhone keyboard.
  4. I go to flag the email on my iPhone, before realizing that flagging doesn’t exist.
  5. I promptly forget to respond.

What I need is an email client for both iPhone and Mac that lets me put mail into GTD contexts similar to Things. Anyone feel up to writing that one?

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