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Pro Tip: Send Better Email
The bottom-up (and better)approach to composing an email.

The bottom-up approach to composing an email

Every email interface guides us to compose the email incorrectly: First add the recipient, then subject, then the body, then the attachment. This leads to forgotten attachments, accidental sends, and meaningless subject lines. Here’s a better (proper) way to compose email:

  1. Insert attachment (so you don’t forget)
  2. Compose message in the body
  3. Compose subject line (summarizing the body)
  4. Finally – proofread, type in the recipient, and hit Send.

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