My new plugin RetroPosts made it into the WordPress plugin directory last night! Check it out.
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People Suck at Email #9, Notifications
Turn off your email notifications.
Months ago I turned off all email notifications on my phone and years ago on desktop.
I haven’t looked back. Being interrupted by new email notifications gives email an undeserved sense of urgency. Email is not instant messaging, it’s not a phone call or a text message, it’s not an alarm bell or siren. Nothing bad is going to happen if you don’t read an email for 15 minutes or a few hours.
I highly recommend trying it out. Even though I don’t receive a huge amount of email, I feel like the amount of stress in my life has decreased by at least 33%.
Caveat: I no longer run system critical infrastructure of any sort. I realize these types of systems do actually send “alarm bell” type emails. IMHO this is an inappropriate and antiquated use of email. If I was responsible for these sorts of systems, I would first look for an app to replace the alert emails. If that was completely impossible, I suppose turning off notifications would not be an option.
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RetroPosts: A Glimpse Into The Past
in WordPressI’ve been using Timehop for a few weeks now, in short, the app gives you a glimpse into your online past by presenting you a feed of tweets, status updates, photos, etc from your past.
RetroPosts is a plugin I designed to help you surface some of that old content. In it’s current state, it adds a widget to your dashboard that displays a list of posts from your blog posted this same week in the past.
It’s a great way to remind yourself of the amazing posts you’ve written. Providing you with inspiration or follow up material.
I’m definitely open to feature requests and ideas.
Download it from GitHub .zip (repo).
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Get it in the WordPress plugin directory.