It seemed like the ideal solution: press F12, write an email, click send, voilà! But it didn't work well for two reasons: it didn't autocomplete email addresses from my address book. I found a Dashboard Widget which would send email through Gmail.
Stop beating yourself up over it." (It's nice to have smart friends.)Ģ) "Use a Dashboard Widget!" This was actually the first solution I tried. My friend replied, "Look, if you know this about yourself, you have two choices: either don't go into the bookstore, or accept the fact that if you do you're going to buy a book. I once complained that I couldn't go into a bookstore without buying a book, even if I just intended to browse. No matter how tightly I pack the sand, eventually the tide is coming in. But, at least for me, any system which depends on sheer force of will is like building a sandcastle at the beach. Everything is sorted to where it belongs, and when the time comes I can check by various folders (sorry, "labels") later on. I have an extensive and elaborate set of Gmail filters which almost guarantee that nothing ends up in my Inbox directly. Most of the time I am very good about that. Hey look, new email!ġ) "Just ignore it." Ideally this wouldn't be a problem because by sheer force of will I could just ignore messages which are unread and untended. Quitting my email app was easy, but then a few minutes later I realized that I needed to send an email. (Merlin Mann recently mentioned this problem on an episode of Back To Work, which is what reminded me about it.) I ran into this problem when I tried to start checking email once or twice a day.
What was I going to tell him?" Now hopefully your brain works better than mine does (I did eventually remember the original message I was going to send), but if you have ever tried to get into the habit of checking email less often you might have run into this same problem:īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy.Įmail apps expect that when you want to send email you also want to check email. I read the message, I started to think about what I needed to do in response to it, and other people I need talk about it.Īlmost 30 minutes went by before I remembered, "Didn't I come over here to start writing an email to someone? Steve. But my brain had already started thinking and processing. If I had just gone to bed without checking my email, I would have seen it the next morning when I was at the office. To be clear, I couldn't really do anything about the message. Once I saw the From: line, it almost would have been worse not to read it, because then I would have been wondering what it said. I could have tried to ignore it, but my brain isn't fooled that easily. I saw a message from someone that I wished I hadn't seen. I remembered that I needed to send an email to someone so it would be there for them first thing in the morning, so I launched Gmail (actually Mailplane) as I started to formulate the message in my head as I waited for it to load. I even found a (partial) solution for iOS devices as well. How many times have you gone to send an email, only to be distracted or even derailed by something that you found in your Inbox? I found a solution which is completely free, integrates completely with OS X, and which guarantees that it won't happen to me again.
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