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New post: Using Thunderbird to Move Email to a New Account
Thunderbird can move messages from one IMAP account to another. Just drag and drop! But Gmail makes it a bit more complicated.
#computers #email #thunderbird #google #degoogling #gmail #howTo #techTips #defaang
I was going to put together a post complaining about #email #newsletters that still assume you’re reading on a desktop and send out layouts that rely on a wide screen size and end up with 2pt type on a #mobile phone – you know, where most people read their email these days.
Then I stumbled on this #usability article by Jakob Nielsen.
From 2012.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-email-newsletters/
The funny thing is that #HTML is #responsive by default. In the very early days, it was *always* responsive except when you added preformatted text. Once you got a little more rendering capability (tables, images and image maps) you had people designing websites who were accustomed to fixed-size media, and the paradigm stuck.
Build for 800×600. Build for 1024×768. Hey, we have widescreen now. What do you mean the window isn’t always fullscreen?
And so on.
Being able to apply relative sizes to everything, and being able to tweak the layout based on the logical screen size instead of physical pixels is an amazing improvement in the flexibility of anything formatted in HTML+CSS.
(And of course higher-definition displays, but a responsive layout can still make itself usable on some of those older screen sizes.)
I’m reminded of the story about a student when I was in college with a name something like Sarah Tan, who was assigned an email address using the first two letters of her first name and her full last name. At the time they were really reluctant to change anyone’s address once it was assigned, with only a short list of reasons allowed to get a new email (like a legal name change).
They made an exception.
(Also, back then, finger was the name of a network command you could use to find out if your friends were online at the time, so…)
Advice on dealing with email without letting it take over. I do some of these already: I use filters to pre-classify a lot, and I’ve pared down notifications to only the most critical. But it’s still a struggle to keep on top of it sometimes. Some of the other suggestions look like they’ll be helpful.
Does your inbox constantly beg for attention? Do you suffer from always-on inbox anxiety? Email can easily take over your life—especially if you’re running a business. If that’s happening, it’s…
