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I wanted to clear my Gmail inbox but there's too much history, specifically conversations with my late father. I still tear up seeing old messages. I often wish
by navs 7y ago
I wanted to clear my Gmail inbox but there's too much history, specifically conversations with my late father. I still tear up seeing old messages. I often wish I had voicemail and SMS stored like with email.
I'd definitely pay for something like that.
- kwijibob 7y agoAbsolutely. I thought we would have automated voicemail transcription to email by now. At least let the audio of voicemail go to my Gmail inbox. There is a great SMS backup+ app that Is open source on GitHub. But Google seem to keep blocking access. When it works it puts SMS archives into a Gmail folder.
- buster 7y agoCan recommend SMS backup+ as well. Reminded me that I should donate to it, since it's free and I've used it for years now.
- apostacy 7y agoI'm sorry to hear that so many of you are agonizing about this, but it is totally unnecessary! Storage space is so cheap and free now. And none of you have more emails than could fit on a $4 jumpdrive. You can even just go to Google Takeout[1], and have it export all of your emails to your associated Google Drive account. You can store up to 15G. You don't even have to worry about finding a place to store it. Takes only a few minutes. And no time limit to download the archive from your Google Drive. Why is this painful for any of you?? You can easily make a backup, AND also declutter your account. I almost feel like some people are so committed to minimalism that they are forcing themselves to needlessly purge precious memories just to prove a point about how hardcore they are about throwing things out. So I feel bad bursting their bubble that this sacrifice is pointless. [1]: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en
- moretai 7y agoLike that famous dropbox post, people would rather pay for something.