In How Backpack Made Me Like Gmail More, Nate Burgos shares how Backpack has helped him keep his inbox cleaner by streamlining his writing and editing process.
When a web-based product (or any designed product or service) inspires this, it’s worth acquiring and using. My editor Silvia acknowledged during our initial use of the trial version that Backpack’s alleviation of multiple emails (not to mention multiple attachments) was a very good thing. Silvia’s comfort level, combined with mine, was upped.Now my Gmail inbox is thankfully shallower, with fewer messages and files when it comes to my editorial process. Gmail offers high storage but it feels better to arrange, share and store project-based content and information in a systematic way with Backpack. This makes Gmail more breathable and fun.
Read the full article for an in-depth look at how Nate uses Backpack to collaborate with his editor on blog posts and some observations from the organizational move from Gmail to Backpack.
"Each Page serves as a central place to store the stuff pertaining to the topic of that Page, like this for a past topic for a blog entry."
