Posted in Essay — 25 Jan 2021

Dealing With Email | Chris Hannah

<a class="u-in-reply-to" href="https://chrishannah.me/dealing-with-email/">Chris wrote:</a>
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All of this is very much making me think about giving Hey a try. Except for the fact that I don’t want an <a href="http://hey.com">@hey.com</a> email address.
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This was a big sticking point for me at the start. However I forward all my email to my hey email address and use the actual address very rarely. I only give it out to people I know and this helps with the spam coming through. I don’t love having to use their email address however, because their are a few times I need to send email as an <a href="http://gr36.com">@gr36.com</a> address – but thankfully these times are few and far between.
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So I want to stop some emails getting through to me, but also once I’ve dealt with an email I want it to get out of the way.
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I would LOVE Hey to be inbox zero, however everything hangs around instead. There are really well thought out ways to save emails for later so I have no idea why the others don’t go from your inbox but it’s not a game changer for me.
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I’ll try to write about anything I try along the way, and hopefully, I can find a solution that fits my needs.
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I get too much email, but thankfully using Hey has helped a lot. Its not perfect and I wish I habd looked at sane box before jumping in, but I’m excited to see where Chris gets to.