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Posted at 2020-08-18
This article mentions my wiki. Read my previous article about it, perhaps:
gemini://tanelorn.city/~bouncepaw/gemlog/wiki-flex.gemini
We all use email, right. I have two email boxes: a google one (ew) and a yandex one (ew). I use the first one for things that do not matter like registering in a stupid service that I won't need in 10 years or sending assignments at school; the second one is used for writing to interesting people and registering on interesting services.
Over the course of several years, I collected quite a collection of mail. Endless junk ads from Nintendo, Pocket and Hackaday, things like that. Some time ago, I kinda cleaned both email boxes and it has been not that traumatizing since then.
Today I've thought that it'd be nice to move all interesting email threads to wiki with a nice, readable formatting (emails tend to look ugly. I'm looking at you, those who hard-wrap their messages). Moreover, can you really trust a megacorp? I doubt. But I can trust myself; my self-hosted data will be ok. Of course, for further safety I have to backup it somehow. I push it to another megacorp's servers, of course. Good news: the megacorp I backup my wiki to claims to keep my confidentionality.
I've emptied my yandex mailbox today completely. I have empty inbox and just three messages in outbox (the conversations are not done yet). And here is a list of all moved mail chains:
Some of you may recognise the titles. If you don't like seeing your name here, please tell me and I'll remove your names. Canary: so far, no one has contacted me about that.
I like the new way of storing the conversations. It is good to read, easy to transclude to other hyphae of the wiki and satisfactory.
I don't think I should show actual messages' contents, but all pages are constructed in this way:. Each message starts with a ##-heading, followed by a preformatted block with stuff like From/To/When and actual message's contents formatted in gemtext with unneeded parts like extra citations at end stripped down. That's it.
I hope you liked my new approach. Now I want to hear about your email workflows.
~solderpunk's recent article mentions how he handles email briefly. It is kinda related.