20th
The greatest Blackberry tip ever!
I should be paid for this tip but it would not be fair as Ari Katz who is on my SimulScribe team showed me this. The worst part of the blackberry is having emails and sms combined, the stupid device does this by default (see Bijan’s frustration of this below)
The fix:
- Open your email folder
- Scroll down to options
- Click on “General Options”
- Then where is says “SMS and Email Inboxes” choose separate.
Your SMS’s will now be in a different folder and your Blackberry will be the most useful tool ever (of course you also need SimulScribe with SimulSays to be totally complete.
Email is a gift and a curse as we all know by now.
Our inbox can control us if we aren’t careful.
But when we try to control our inbox we get punished later. I’ve tried different schemes like only check email at certain times a day which doesn’t work. Or I’ve tried staying aggressively on email but is an uphill climb at best.
Twitter is becoming my favorite way to deal with time sensitive messages. Direct and @reply messaging works great for me. But a lot of folks still dont’ use Twitter (yet).
I’ve tried adding rules & filters to my mail client but those don’t carry over to my iphone or blackberry. SMS on the blacbkerry is a broken experience because they are just thrown in with email.
On weekends i try to check email only twice a day. But many times I break this rule.
One thing that would help is if people used the subject line better. I’m trying to do that.
Other ideas or suggestions?
