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It's not an exaggeration to say that email management is overwhelming to me. As someone with anywhere upwards of 10,000 emails in my inbox -- many of them unread, to the dismay of my minimalist friends -- I am always looking for tips and…

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This past week, we had a fantastic chat with college coach and essay consultant Betsy Cadel on the Spawned Parenting Podcast. She offered so many incredible tips on making the college search and application process easier and less stress…

We talked last week about tips for spring-cleaning your phone , and this week I'm taking a stab at my email. I'd never let my actual snail mail pile up in a massive overflow of unanswered bills and letters, but for some reason I let my e…

Chances are good that you're clicking through to this article because you don't know what "tabbed gmails" even are. Right? Well, here's the deal: Gmail has a "handy" organization tool that categorizes all your emails automatically. To se…

Don't go into 2021 with 43,891 emails! (I'm not kidding. That's literally how many emails are in my inbox, currently). The simple trick we shared on our most recent Out-Tech Your Kids podcast episode has helped us start off every new yea…

Back a couple of years ago, Liz and I addressed our email pet peeves in one of our first Spawned podcast episodes. It was actually Episode 4, to be exact. Aw. Sniffle! Well, apparently, the debate about how to sign-off on your emails is …

For ages now I've touted the wonderful benefits of Boomerang for Gmail to help me better manage my incoming and outgoing email, and it seems the folks at Google like the feature themselves. Because now Gmail has actually incorporated Boo…

We're not huge fans of sending emails on the fly, even with the "Sent from our iPhone and talk-to-text hates us" warning at the bottom. But if we do, there are 3 handy iPhone email tricks we use to make them look as buttoned up as they w…

In a recent New York Times article , one of our favorite organizational apps Unroll.me was mentioned as selling user data (specifically emails with Lyft receipts) to Uber, and not surprisingly people are worried, including us. We've been…

Just because January is over doesn't mean we can't still clean, organize, declutter and start fresh . Most of us will start (and finish) with the obvious physical objects surrounding us and taking up space. While our editor Christina sha…

I am fortunate that my grandmother was a writer, so she took it upon herself to write all her amazing life story down for us before she passed away. Even so, I would have loved to have had StoryWorth , a service that helps you capture yo…

Even though I downloaded iOS 10 last week, like many of you, it's taking me awhile to get used to all the changes and new iOS 10 features. Oof, there are a ton. And while I have to admit that I'm liking most of them, there's definitely a…

This week I got a scam email claiming to be an invoice from my iTunes account on Apple. Luckily, a few things tipped me off that this wasn't legit, so I contacted Apple about it and saved myself the tremendous hassle of having to change …

Think about the last email you sent off in haste. Maybe it had a ridiculous typo. Or, worse, you spilled out all your anger or hurt feelings across the QWERTY instead of taking a breath -- or a night's sleep -- before hitting send. Ugh. …

When I finally broke down and got my daughter an email account ( all my friends have one! actually does work sometimes) we had the long, requisite discussions about safety, etiquette, and responsibility. But wow, it turns out there's so …

When my friend Anna , who is my go-to source for everything related to time management mentioned Boomerang for Gmail , I figured it was worth a shot. And wow...consider my life changed. If you're a Gmail user who finds yourself sometimes…

Do you have some basic tech chore to do -- say, deleting old digital photos -- but you just never seem to find the time to get to it? It's like permanently etched in your to-do list, and every time you scroll through your loaded smartpho…

Ever wonder how to unsend an email, say... you hit send on an email, and then realize you had a typo, sent it a little too soon or included the wrong information? Or worse, wrote something and accidentally sent it to the last person you'…

As someone who gets literally hundreds and hundreds of emails a day ( note to everyone I know: sorry I haven't gotten back to you yet ), I have been going absolutely nuts figuring out if there was some sort of Gmail shortcut to allow me …

I’m usually not one for New Year’s resolutions, but, in the spirit of getting more done in 2014, I decided to tackle my email--like so many of you who ask us how to clean up your inbox when it's overrun with more emails than anyone can k…

Indeed, one of our Cool Mom Tech subscribers will win a fully loaded iPad this month, courtesy of one of our very favorite parent lifesaver apps, Artkive . But our subscribers get so much more than that every month. Our monthly newslette…

Good news for Gmail users: The interface just got a little more organized, and whether you use it on the Web, on your iOS or Android device, you can keep those 3,420 emails in check with some of the new features. And the new feature of t…

If your fridge is like mine, it's covered with artwork, kids' papers from school and class lists that I'm just too busy to input into my address book, computer or phone. Well how about an app that can do it all for you? Really. Lo and be…