Image description: HOW TO SEND EMAILS: STEP 2: READ EMAIL. STEP 1: TYPE EMAIL.. 500 TIMES BEFORE SENDING. STEP 3: SEND EMAIL. STEP 4: GO TO "SENT FOLDER" AND READ MAIL AGAIN FROM THE RECEIVERS PERSPECTIVE. Comic by AMBYCOMICS
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-04-14) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.
I hate when this happens. My school teacher told me to âread it backwardsâ as a way to help catching errors, but I still manage to find a way to send some anyway.
A former boss of mine told me to believe thereâs still one mistake somewhere in the email and my job is to find it. Once you think that way, youâre really looking for it, even if itâs not there.
Definitely missing the 5th panel where you see very clearly all the really obvious mistakes you made that were somehow completely invisible through 500 checks but will stick out immediately to even a casual reader.
Just set a rule to delay delivery on all emails like 1-2 minutes. Plenty of time to catch things. You can also set a condition to send immediately, like if itâs marked âimportantâ.
Beware if you use Outlook. With that rule your mail wonât get sent at all from time to time and is stuck in your outgoing folder. I have not further investigated when it happens.
I actually have experienced this rarely, too - what works for me is either to manually re-send or to just copy the email contents over and send a new email. It seems to happen most when I try to edit or view an email that is being held by the rule in the outbox.
That said, I havenât had this happen in quite a while, and it wasnât a super common occurrence for me.
Apparently, Iâm the only one that does this out of my entire friend group, extended friend group, family, and work associates. Because theyâre all constantly sending hobbled together messes that couldnât possibly have been proof read a single time.
Iâve never thought of looking in my sent folder and rereading, but I am constantly remembering something I should have include in the email after the fact. I need to slow down.
Use a rule to hold messages in your outbox for 5 minutes before sending. That way you can make changes after you hit send and remember super important stuff. I pair this with another rule where I can tag an email with a category to force it to send immediately.
I only do this when Iâm high and definitely shouldnât be sending important emails, however I do find when I go back and read them sober, they are some of my more coherent and articulate messages.
But in the moment, and for many moments thereafter, I have to confirm that they arenât the incoherent ravings of an absolutely zooted reefer mad junkie at least 27 times.