2006 Email Keyboards Training 
Ian's Messy Desk
OCTOBER 20, 2010
Tips and Tools You Can Use In the same way we exercise our muscles to keep fit, we have to continue to train our brain to maintain its efficiency over time. Put pen to paper (or finger tips to keyboard) and record important dates in a calendar, notebook or on your mobile device. So hang up the phone, find a quiet place and focus.
Men With Pens
MAY 24, 2012
Then again, maybe it is… A writing routine – a clear, set pattern of familiar, habitual activities – trains your brain to write on demand. Train your brain right, and it’ll be industrial quantities of well-written words. I sit at the kitchen island and read my email. whirr” – hit the keyboard.
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Men With Pens
AUGUST 5, 2012
Many writers hit the keyboard for set periods of time. If a coffeehouse doesn’t suit you, try the library, a train or even a bar. National Book Award winner and New York Times essayist Richard Powers claims he hasn’t touched a keyboard in years, not even to write an email. ” Write for time. Write in pieces.
Men With Pens
APRIL 27, 2010
His emails are usually brief, casual, and mention something like, “Have a nice weekend,” or “Hope everything’s good with you.” So it was weird to get an email that was so stilted and formal that it sounded like it was written by the Queen of England’s chamberlain to someone she was too polite to outright call a waste of space.
Men With Pens
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
DO NOT look at a single work email after that. Your quick email check becomes a written response, some analysis, and finally that little voice says, “What the heck. It’s really easy to get sucked in to one more email and lose an entire evening. You have plenty of time left for that client. I might as well just do it.&#
Brilliantly Better
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
Receiving Out Of The Blue Thank You Emails This started to happen a year ago, and in the last few months has become more and more common. In the beginning I was getting a thank you email (or comment on the blog, for that matter) once a month. not, I tend to have a rather greedy “Delete&# key on my keyboard.
Brilliantly Better
APRIL 19, 2010
Although it’s been more than 7 months since I’ve published it, I still get a few re-tweets per week and a decent number of monthly thank you emails. After I finish, I send the generated mind map as an email attachment. For that, I’m using Quicksilver, the MacJournal shortcut and self-addressed emails. That’s all.
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