Comment by JourneyToLunar

Mail app (part of macOS)

Folder per research topic for a bit of structure.

In the Todo folder, 1 email is 1 todo. Reply can be used to change the todo or add more information. When task is finished then email is moved by replying done to the email and rules will take care of the rest.

With Safari I can email an article to myself that is basically only the article and not the whole website.

Search in Mail app is amazing.

I have ~20k emails now in my notes folders.

Also part of many mailing lists. Discourse forums often have mailing mode. Mail is basically my second brain. I find things that are important quicker in Mail then via Google. Rust mailing list (via discourses mailing list mode) is a life saver. Beauty of it is, all emails are on my disk so it also works offline.

Total emails in my mailboxes come close to ~500k now.

Also from other places I can send notes to myself with special email addresses.

podviaznikov a day ago

pretty cool. I don't use it like that, but can see it being useful.

I like Safari send to mail feature too.

I made small Mail app macOS extension called alto.mail. Thinking what features can I add to make it even more useful.

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vednig a day ago

this is the most sophisticated workflow i've seen, but if it works that's great, if not what else do you wish for sometimes would be there but is not?