I'd like to pop in a plug for a blog post I wrote a few years ago on this topic: https://fastmail.blog/company/email-is-your-electronic-memory/ https://fastmai

I'd like to pop in a plug for a blog post I wrote a few years ago on this topic: https://fastmail.blog/company/email-is-your-electronic-memory/ https://fastmail.blog/company/email-is-your-electronic-memor... It was in response to Google promoting AMP for email (aka: you don't get a permanent copy of the content) - but more generally, the advantages of email aren't so much in the right now, they're in the long term searchable and immutable archive. See also the nice immediate triage features of heyhey - there's some nice stuff in there, but long term their users are going to find that they're living in the moment and not building the value that's stored in the data to the same extent that users of more traditional mailboxes do. (at least if you have decent search)