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I just email myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ e: Also, I used to use https://750words.com https://750words.com which is quite similar.

by rognjen 7y ago

kossnocorp 7y ago
It works well too! Too bad is not easy to fetch history.
- rognjen 7y ago
  In Gmail you can search by dates. And for convenience I've a filter for from me to me with journal title. Stats wouldn't be possible (of the top of my head) but I don't care about that much.
- brootstrap 7y ago
  The app is cool man good work! old school boy here made an vi alias to my journal.txt file and have been using it for 5+ years. alias opens the file in edit mode on a newline at the bottom. VI search lets me find whatever i need quickly all from the keyboard! This whole 'email yourself as diary' seems like overkill to me when you could just write something yourself. Unless you are cool with sharing your diary with 3rd party services. Anyways it's still a cool little thing, just throwin my two cents.
mmahemoff 7y ago
I use the Gmail "+" hack to mail myself on different topics. name+ideas@ for app ideas name+notes@ for random notes name+writing@ for article ideas (edit: formatting)
- reikonomusha 7y ago
  Isn’t that just an email hack?
  - Retr0spectrum 7y ago
    No, it's a gmail-specific "feature". Other mail services may also implement it, I guess.
    - capableweb 7y ago
      Yeah, seems there is enough other services that a RFC (under "Subaddress Extension") has been proposed https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233 Maybe it'll get enough steam. Edit: doesn't mean everyone will use it though! But guess the plus sign in addresses would be more "email" than just email.
      - Spivak 7y ago
        It’s nice that they’re trying to standardize it but it’s an impossible standard since you can’t assume that any particular domain adheres to to it so you end up with a whitelist either way.
        capableweb 7y ago
        I guess you're seeing it from the service owners point of view, and in that case it doesn't really matter no? AFAIK, it's for the owners of the email to use the subaddressing, not for others to magically come up and use subaddressing. So as long as you, the user and owner of an address, know that your domain supports/not supports it, you can use it. I don't understand who would have to add any allow/blocklists?
    - Tomte 7y ago
      It is supported by most mail servers, I guess, and at some time nerds all over the world were heavily promoting this scheme. I know someone who constantly complained that web site X or company Y are stupid, because they don't follow the RFCs, don't know the syntax of mail addresses, because mail validation in web forms often rejected anything with a plus sign. The correct answer would have been "don't do it then" or maybe "how about configuring your Exim so that instead of '+' you're using '-' as a separator, but I suppose the complaining was a big part of the fun.
- cgs 7y ago
  This is also a fun way to use an email-based coupon multiple times...I have yet to find an instance where this fails validation.
ArtWomb 7y ago
>>> I just email myself Sometimes I don't even press "Send". Just keep pages of daily notes in the "Draft" folder ;)
- giancarlostoro 7y ago
  This is how I use Sublime Text 3. I use it as my infinite clipboard / pastebin. After months of not using them I clear them out.
  - penagwin 7y ago
    Funny I use sublime the same way. It's my go-to tool for when I need to manipulate text (ctrl+d is a godsend) for copying and pasting. It's super powerful, but uses few resources compared to vscode/intellij. Not to mention it can handle massive text files like a champ.
    - giancarlostoro 7y ago
      Yeah, I can open my notes up in an instant which is why I use it. I dont use it to dev all the time, but I do enjoy ST. If ST4 becomes a major improvement (LSP?) I may reconsider.
      - penagwin 7y ago
        I tried to develop with it (We use primarily python and typescript) but intellij is just so darn good. It's kinda clunkly for one-off files and text editing though, which is why I prefer sublime for a lot of that stuff.
        giancarlostoro 7y ago
        Yeah I have a JetBrains subscription too, the editors powerful and I'm accustomed to it.
- ilammy 7y ago
  I used to do this once, then I’ve lost a couple of days to IMAP. Now I keep a bunch of text files.
saintPirelli 7y ago
I use `nano YYYYMMDD.md`.

I just email myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ e: Also, I used to use https://750words.com https://750words.com which is quite similar.

kossnocorp 7y ago

It works well too! Too bad is not easy to fetch history.

rognjen 7y ago
In Gmail you can search by dates. And for convenience I've a filter for from me to me with journal title. Stats wouldn't be possible (of the top of my head) but I don't care about that much.
brootstrap 7y ago
The app is cool man good work! old school boy here made an vi alias to my journal.txt file and have been using it for 5+ years. alias opens the file in edit mode on a newline at the bottom. VI search lets me find whatever i need quickly all from the keyboard! This whole 'email yourself as diary' seems like overkill to me when you could just write something yourself. Unless you are cool with sharing your diary with 3rd party services. Anyways it's still a cool little thing, just throwin my two cents.

mmahemoff 7y ago

I use the Gmail "+" hack to mail myself on different topics. name+ideas@ for app ideas name+notes@ for random notes name+writing@ for article ideas (edit: formatting)

reikonomusha 7y ago
Isn’t that just an email hack?
- Retr0spectrum 7y ago
  No, it's a gmail-specific "feature". Other mail services may also implement it, I guess.
  - capableweb 7y ago
    Yeah, seems there is enough other services that a RFC (under "Subaddress Extension") has been proposed https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233 Maybe it'll get enough steam. Edit: doesn't mean everyone will use it though! But guess the plus sign in addresses would be more "email" than just email.
    - Spivak 7y ago
      It’s nice that they’re trying to standardize it but it’s an impossible standard since you can’t assume that any particular domain adheres to to it so you end up with a whitelist either way.
      - capableweb 7y ago
        I guess you're seeing it from the service owners point of view, and in that case it doesn't really matter no? AFAIK, it's for the owners of the email to use the subaddressing, not for others to magically come up and use subaddressing. So as long as you, the user and owner of an address, know that your domain supports/not supports it, you can use it. I don't understand who would have to add any allow/blocklists?
  - Tomte 7y ago
    It is supported by most mail servers, I guess, and at some time nerds all over the world were heavily promoting this scheme. I know someone who constantly complained that web site X or company Y are stupid, because they don't follow the RFCs, don't know the syntax of mail addresses, because mail validation in web forms often rejected anything with a plus sign. The correct answer would have been "don't do it then" or maybe "how about configuring your Exim so that instead of '+' you're using '-' as a separator, but I suppose the complaining was a big part of the fun.
cgs 7y ago
This is also a fun way to use an email-based coupon multiple times...I have yet to find an instance where this fails validation.

ArtWomb 7y ago

>>> I just email myself Sometimes I don't even press "Send". Just keep pages of daily notes in the "Draft" folder ;)

giancarlostoro 7y ago
This is how I use Sublime Text 3. I use it as my infinite clipboard / pastebin. After months of not using them I clear them out.
- penagwin 7y ago
  Funny I use sublime the same way. It's my go-to tool for when I need to manipulate text (ctrl+d is a godsend) for copying and pasting. It's super powerful, but uses few resources compared to vscode/intellij. Not to mention it can handle massive text files like a champ.
  - giancarlostoro 7y ago
    Yeah, I can open my notes up in an instant which is why I use it. I dont use it to dev all the time, but I do enjoy ST. If ST4 becomes a major improvement (LSP?) I may reconsider.
    - penagwin 7y ago
      I tried to develop with it (We use primarily python and typescript) but intellij is just so darn good. It's kinda clunkly for one-off files and text editing though, which is why I prefer sublime for a lot of that stuff.
      - giancarlostoro 7y ago
        Yeah I have a JetBrains subscription too, the editors powerful and I'm accustomed to it.
ilammy 7y ago
I used to do this once, then I’ve lost a couple of days to IMAP. Now I keep a bunch of text files.

saintPirelli 7y ago

I use `nano YYYYMMDD.md`.