• My Life,  The Lazy Designer

    On Being Organized

    Reading an article discussing some google mail features that recently ‘passed’, I was reminded of several organizational tricks that I’ve been using over the years. This little bit of nostalgia is specific to e-mail but probably applies more generally. Basically the one feature that caught my eye in the article is that google mail (gmail) automatically color codes messages using a specific color to identify the content of the email (i.e., gray is for bills). The advantage of this, especially if you get a lot of email (like I used to when working at BioWare, 100+ emails in a day was not uncommon) was that at a glance you could…