A pair of Google products that just never seemed to catch fire are both shutting down two weeks from today — Google+, the company’s once-beleaguered attempt at a social network to rival Facebook, and ...

I have four e-mails in my inbox right now, but I’m aiming for that number to be zero. Like many practitioners of the “Inbox Zero” system, I treat my inbox like a to-do list, with each e-mail ...

Remember when email was supposed to make office workers’ lives easier? Yeah, that turned out well. In my business efficiency consulting work, the top complaint I hear is that everyone is spending too ...

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Google has introduced a new email app, from the same team that builds Gmail, but intended as something completely different from Gmail. Inbox is the app, and it looks like it might owe some ...

It’s the dreaded feeling of turning on your smartphone or logging in to your work computer, and seeing the inevitable: the full inbox. Emails from colleagues who need answers now, supervisors who need ...

Outlook.com hopes to get defectors from Gmail. Microsoft%27s new email service has gone from 0 to 60 million active users in 6 months Handy tools can help clean up your inbox Six months after ...

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There comes a time when enough is, quite simply, enough. I had been putting off the task of organizing my sprawling Gmail inbox for months, if not years. But when Lifehacker told me that we were going ...