{"id":4036,"date":"2015-02-07T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T17:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2015-02-07T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T17:11:56","slug":"embarking-on-noemail-for-2015-the-andyswann-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/embarking-on-noemail-for-2015-the-andyswann-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarking on #noemail for 2015 &#8211; the @andyswann story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;In January I sent 22 emails,&#8221;<\/em> admits <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@andyswann\">Andy Swann<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-work-project\/the-first-month-of-no-email-5b24d4f2cc33\">his very helpful and personal Medium post recounting his first month of #noemail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Swann does a great job of pointing out his discoveries of helpful apps and practices (many of which you&#8217;ve seen on this blog, but his is a great update of what available at this point in time).<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly the biggest bugaboo for Swann was his &#8220;out of office&#8221; aka &#8220;vacation&#8221; aka autoresponder in Outlook. It seems that Outlook wants some complex rules to avoid looping and over-responding. My own experience with GMail&#8217;s version was conversely completely simple and reliable and remains so. But do take Swann&#8217;s experience as a warning and keep an eye on your autoresponder actions even if you&#8217;re not quitting email.<\/p>\n<p>One observation from Swann that readers of this blog will appreciate what Swann discovers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve come to rely on my phone as my complete communication hub now. I use native apps for everything and rarely use browser versions, or my laptop at all, if I can avoid it. The phone keeps all my communication methods together with instant access, notifications and updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the future of messaging will be: <strong>highly collaborative, mobile preferred, whitelisted, terse, quick, highly interactive, context appropriate, available to all devices, and with highly manageable and customizable communications streams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Swann touches on all of that and gives practical advice based on his recent personal experience. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-work-project\/the-first-month-of-no-email-5b24d4f2cc33\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/AndySwannAway.png\" alt=\"Andy Swann's Away Mesage\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In January I sent 22 emails,&#8221; admits Andy Swann in his very helpful and personal Medium post recounting his first month of #noemail. Swann does a great job of pointing out his discoveries of helpful apps and practices (many of which you&#8217;ve seen on this blog, but his is a great update of what available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}