Expand Your Email Experience

Don't settle for ordinary email. With these steps, you can take your email experience to the next level.

Steps

1. Access your data anywhere. Turn your webmail account into a hard drive with the free GMail Drive extension for Windows or GDisk for Macs.
2. Don't send gargantuan files. Free services like YouSendIt Lite let you store files of up to a gigabyte on their server. Your contacts are emailed a link they can use to retrieve them.
3. Ping your future self. FutureMe and FutureMail send messages at a later time or date. For a recurring alert - "Hey, self, get the oil changed!" - try calendar apps from Yahoo or Google.
4. Make keyboard shortcuts. Want to type "tfn" and have it expand to "Thanks so much for your note?" Try the free AutoHotkey for Windows or the $30 Text-Expander for Mac.

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References

• Wired Magazine - Original source of this article. Shared with permission.

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