Throughout the day, we’re all inundated with emails from all manner of people, companies and automated machines about a plethora of topics. Some of these emails are important, some vital, and others are just white noise.
Because of this, it can be all too easy to start viewing our inboxes as uninspiring to-do lists, relentlessly demanding our attention whereas in actual fact, your inbox can be as inspiring or informative as you want it to be.
We’ve put together a list of Newsletters that are sure to inform, inspire and educate you every day, turning your boring inbox into a playground of ideas:
1. Sidebar | Sidebar.io
Sidebar is a newsletter containing 5 of the best design links of the day, every day. The newsletter and site are a collaborative effort and are manually curated by a few great editors.
2. Buzzfeed News | Buzzfeed.com
If you like to stay on top of what’s going on in the world, and have it explained to you in a clear and digestible format, Buzzfeed News is the newsletter for you. The Buzzfeed News Newsletter aggregates the top news of the day, with a multitude of sources, images, explanations and further reading.
3. The Guardian Today | Theguardian.com
The Guardian today is designed to set you up for the day, with the latest in politics, world, sport, culture, technology, editor’s picks, travel, life and more.
It’s a comprehensive list that should leave you satisfied no matter what your tastes or interests
4. Jason Hirschhorn’s Mediaredef | Redef.com
Jason Hirschhorn’s Media Redefined is a comprehensive newsletter covering all things media. There is also a sports, fashion, tech and music playlist you can subscribe to as well. According to the site itself, the creators of the Redefined newsletters search the internet every day to find different angles and points of view that lead to a deeper understanding.
5. Product Hunt | Producthunt.com
Over the past few years, Product Hunt has carved a name for itself as being the best place to find, launch or promote your startup, venture, app or program. It “surfaces the best new products, every day” and is a great way to find new up and coming applications or websites that will make your life easier.
6. Highbrow | Gohighbrow.com
Highbrow is a email newsletter designed to expand your knowledge in bite-sized chunks every day, on a variety of topics. Simply select a topic you’re interested in learning more about, pick a start date, and highbrow will email you a little tidbit of information on that topic every day until the course ends. Most courses are 10 days long.
It’s free knowledge, in your inbox, every day.
7. Nieman lab | Niemanlab.org
The Nieman Lab is a project set up to help figure out where the news is headed in an internet age set up by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Even if you’re not an editor, publishing or journalist, the news and analysis they uncover are useful for everyone to know in a modern age of digital publishing.
8. Remotive | Remotive.io
The Remotive newsletter is one aimed at remote workers, or companies employing remote workers, filled with tips, guides, interviews and FAQs about remote working. Whether you work remotely, or your company even allows it, there’s a lot in this newsletter to convince you otherwise, and even some takeaway tips that apply to non-remote workers too.
9. ClickZ | Clickz.com
(Formally .Rising)
ClickZ is one of the best places to go for small business marketing news, information, commentary and advice. Their newsletter features their best articles of the day, as well as exclusive offers on events and courses.
10. Morning reader | Morningreader.com
Morning reader delivers the best in technology news directly to your inbox every day. Stories are curated in real time, and are powered by social signals amongst other ranking factors. It’s a welcomed snapshot in the tech world, without needing to trawl through hundreds of sites at a time.
11. The School of life | Theschooloflife.com
The School of Life is devoted to developing emotional intelligence through the help of culture, addressing issues such as finding fulfilling work, achieving personal calm and better understanding the world we live in, the people we surround ourselves with, and the thoughts we have.
It can help you look at things from a different viewpoint, understand why we feel the way we do, and why our colleagues might act the way they act.
12. Think clearly | Thnkclrly.com
Think Clearly is a little different to your average tips and advice newsletter, in that it’s completely handwritten. The creator, Mathias Jakobsen, draws his tips and inspirational anecdotes onto a piece of papers, snaps them and fires them over in an email.
The newsletter offers little reflection exercises to help you in your daily life and can often help you take a step back and, well, think clearly.
13. Crew | Blog.crew.co
The Crew newsletter contains blogs and advice from the Crew.co site. Unlike other blogs, the crew blog is very honest and open with itself, often offering anecdotes and advice from when the crew team tried something that didn’t work, or very personally written pieces on combatting stress or being more proud of your work.
14. Search Engine Roundtable | SEroundtable.com
If you’re online at all in your line of work, you should know about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). The Search Engine Roundtable newsletter contains the best links of the day from the SEroundtable site, including everything SEO, Google, Bing Yahoo and more.
15. The Awl | Theawl.com
If it’s fresh thinking and creativity you’re after, the Awl newsletter is the one for you. As mentioned on the Awl’s site, they believe:
“There is an audience of intelligent readers who are poorly served by being delivered those same stories in numbing repetition to the detriment of their reading diet. We believe that there is no topic unworthy of scrutiny, so long that it is approached from an intelligent angle, but that there are many topics worthy of scrutiny that lack coverage because of commercial factors”
16. The Modern Desk | Themoderndesk.com
The Modern Desk highlights a personally curated selection of apps, accessories and gadgets for the modern office, one a week, design to make you more productive and make for a more enjoyable work environment. Whether it’s for your work environment, or home desk, it’s a worthy newsletter to be subscribed to.
If this sort of thing tickles your fancy, might we also suggest Desk Hunt, which highlights inspiring workspaces.
17. Death to the Stock Photo | deathtothestockphoto.com
Death to the stock photo is a great newsletter to be subscribed to if you’re a casual user of stock photography, and want beautiful, royalty free, images delivered to your inbox.
Death to the stock photo was started with the goal in mind to help brands properly represent their image, without burning a hole in their pocket.
18. Exposure | Exposure.co
Exposure is a site that helps photographers to create beautiful stories from their pictures. The Exposure newsletter picks the best of these stories and delivers them right to your inbox. It’s a refreshing, and visual, way to start your day.
19. Graphic Burger | Graphicburger.com
You don’t need to be that proficient at graphic design to make compelling and eye-catching designs or advertisements. Graphic Burger have an abundance of free mockups, UI kits, icons, text effects, backgrounds and more. Their free newsletter delivers their best picks of the month straight to your inbox.
Are you subscribed to any newsletters that you think we’ve missed? Let us know in the comments!
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