These are very good tips.
I am happy that me and my boyfriend followed most of them (when living apart).
We have elaborated our own plan of communication at that time.
Since we had a five hours difference - every day he was getting one hour earlier than usually before going to work, and immediately logged into MSN. I at that time was having a lunch break (hope my ex-boss won't know it

) and so we had 30-60 minutes of daily chat even in weekdays.
Additionally, EVERY DAY I was writing him an e-mail before going to bed, and he did the same: only he was reading it after coming home from work, and I was reading his mail in the morning

Funny, when in the Ministry of Internal Affairs we had to bring our correspondence - in the end we only attached snapshots of "printscreens" from MailBox dashboard showing HUNDREDS of mail titles to each other