Why Gmail Users Are Switching to Fastmail
Fastmail features like Masked Email, Labels, Folders, Aliases, and Personal Domains make it easy to personalize your inbox. See how Digital Learning Designer Barry Sampson uses these features to get the most out of his Fastmail account!
I’ve been using Fastmail for my personal and family emails since 2015. In 2020, I also moved over all of my business emails from Gmail. The initial appeal of Fastmail was greater privacy, but I quickly came to appreciate the support for open standards and excellent customer service. You’re dealing with real people who care about you at Fastmail.
I really appreciate how flexible Fastmail is. It allows me to have very different workflows for my personal and business accounts. For example, in my personal account, I use folders. I use labels for my business account because they give me the multi-dimensional organization that’s critical to my workflow.
I combine a couple of key techniques that would only work together with labels. The first is a modified version of the PARA method of organization – PARA being Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive. I have individual labels for each. Projects are those things that need daily attention. Areas are those things that need to be maintained over time, such as business development. All my completed projects (and occasionally areas) get moved into the Archive category. You could create a structure like this with folders, but labels let me add another dimension.
