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How do you follow up on your emails?

February 11, 2014 | Posted by Alexey Panteleev | BigDripper

I used to spend hours following up on my emails. I would write notes to myself and use Outlook categories and Gmail labels to remind myself to follow up. Every working day, I would review my email box for emails to follow up on and email if enough time has passed and I have not…

February 13, 2013 | Alexey Panteleev

Evernote email forwarding app: InQloud

Last month, we have released our new Evernote app InQloud. It automatically creates a unique and easily identifiable email address for each of your Evernote notebooks. And it adds those email addresses into your Google contacts so you can send or forward emails directly from Gmail to specific Evernote notebooks. With InQloud you do not…

January 29, 2013 | Alexey Panteleev

Beta-testing a new email “BigDripper” follow-up robot

BigDripper is our new follow-up robot that leverages Yoxel email conversation tracking. Currently it is only available for Gmail users. You will need to configure at least one Google Apps service in Yoxel Portal to be able to use BigDripper. To see BigDripper in action please visit the blog post written by an early adopter….

January 29, 2013 | Alexey Panteleev

Using Gmail labels to log emails in Highrise under deal or case

Yoxel Portal is doing automatic email conversation discovery and logging for Highrise CRM users (read this article for details. In this automatic mode a conversation is filed under one contact in Highrise and then is tracked by Yoxel Portal.Now Gmail users can also use Gmail labels to direct the logging to a deal or case…

January 29, 2013 | Alexey Panteleev

Getting Gmail labels using javamail

I’ve been working with Gmail using javamail library for a long time now, the standard IMAP/SMTP capabilities were quite enough, even to deal with the labels. But recently I decided to also pull the gmail custom attributes: X-GM-THRID and X-GM-LABELS (see Gmail Imap Extensions).At first it looked like there was no easy way to fetch…

June 29, 2011 | Alexey Panteleev

Sync your Salesforce, Highrise and Basecamp tasks

Our user has commented nicely about our Bacecamp task sync solution in this Basecamp Answers thread (see last comment).Just want to add here that we can do the same now for Google Outlook users. See this overview page.Plus, we’re testing our task sync solution for Highrise tasks and Salesforce tasks.Let me know what you think…

January 24, 2011 | Alexey Panteleev

Is Your Inbox Overflowing?

I ran into this article today, It’s time to deal with that overflowing inbox, which re-iterates what we all experience with email today:1) The growing number of e-mails, she explained, is hampering productivity among so-called knowledge workers who rely heavily on e-mail to get their jobs done and to stay on top of their personal…