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How many email accounts should I have?

If you’re like me, you use your email address in a lot of different ways and a lot of different places. Of course email is needed to send and receive personal and business correspondence. An email address is also usually required when you register to use online services, from payment platforms to social media.

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Security Email Aliases Life-hack

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10 ways to get longer battery life on your smartphone

Let’s face it – we all spend a lot of time on our phones these days. So, it’s no surprise that we are all on the lookout for ways to get long battery life on our phones. No one wants the frustration of having the battery die when there’s nowhere to charge your phone, not to mention the hassle and expense of replacing the battery – or even the phone – when it will no longer holds a charge.

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App How-to Life-hack

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How to do a digital detox without missing out

Have you ever wondered how much time we spend on our phones? Well, the average American spends over 7 hours looking at a screen daily. Screen time has become an essential part of our daily routine. Whether it be staying in touch with loved ones, checking our emails, paying our bills, listening to music, or watching videos, it has become virtually impossible to go through a day without using our phones.

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How-to Life-hack Internet

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Email life hack: Keep organized with a family email account

Notes from the teacher in your kid’s backpack are a thing of the past – nowadays everything is digital. The invitation for the school open house, reminder about a well-child check-up and spring soccer schedule all come as emails. With so many other messages flooding your inbox, it’s easy for one to slip through the cracks. The solution: A family email account.

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Email Life-hack Inbox

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Email life hack: Save and edit mails using email drafts

It happens all the time – you start writing an email but get interrupted before you can finish. Or maybe you aren’t happy with how you’ve phrased something. No problem – just save your message and you can go back to it whenever you’re ready to put on the finishing touches.

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Email How-to Inbox Life-hack

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Email organization: Two effective strategies for organizing your inbox

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of emails in your inbox? Occasionally forget to follow up on a message because it has slipped too far down on the list? Find yourself asking “What's the best way to organize emails?”

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Email Folders Inbox Life-hack

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Practical keyboard shortcuts for your mail.com inbox

Searching for the right function to click in a menu can take time. That's why many laptop users have certain keyboard shortcuts they use to speed up their workflow, like Ctrl + Z to quickly undo a mistake. Others simply prefer their laptop keyboard to a touchpad or mouse.

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Inbox Email Life-hack

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What is a digital detox and do you need one?

Does it seem like you’re always on your devices? Is your face constantly glued to a screen? Nowadays it seems like we have to be constantly connected to our phones to understand what is going on in the world and with our friends and family. Prolonged use of electronic devices can leave us feeling drained and overwhelmed, however.

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How-to Trends Life-hack

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Seven bad email habits you should break

We all spend a lot of time writing and replying to emails. So it’s not surprising that we sometimes cut corners or become careless. But a lot of the times we shoot ourselves in the foot with bad habits that ignore security concerns, annoy our correspondents or result in unprofessional emails.

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Email Attachments Life-hack Netiquette

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Email life hack: How to delete emails efficiently

When emails start to pile up, it can be hard to keep track of your digital life. But who has time to sort through old messages one by one to see what’s important and what’s not? Luckily mail.com has a few simple tricks and tools you can use to find and delete emails in bulk and keep junk from accumulating going forward.

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Email Inbox Life-hack

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