The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- GMail Productivity: Automatically Find All Unsubscribable List, Notification, and Sales Messages
Subscribed to mailing lists? How about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, and other announcements? Do you even know how many announcement, list, and group sales e‑mails you get? A simple GMail or Google Apps Mail filter can not only show you exactly how many messages you get that you can easily unsubscribe from, but it can also make unsubscribing a snap.
Nearly all the mail we’re talking about—legitimate (e.g. not spam) but not always necessary—mail offers a link at the bottom to let you unsubscribe or opt out of receiving future mail. Moreover, the language used to identify these links is invariably “unsubscribe,” “opt out,” or “be removed from”. That makes them easy to identify, group, and process using a simple mail filter.
- Count Characters and Words within Selected Text with Keyboard Maestro
A simple Keyboard Maestro macro to display the character count and word count of selected text anywhere and everywhere on your Mac. For professional and amateur writers, copywriters, journalists, and many others.
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