There are a couple of newsletters I want (shocking to some, I know). There are transactional emails I definitely want (receipts, pw resets, verification, etc).

There are a couple of newsletters I want (shocking to some, I know). There are transactional emails I definitely want (receipts, pw resets, verification, etc). These are true of both personal and work. For work, I use email for notifications in our ticket management system, github, pager duty, etc. I also use it for any async comms that need a "paper trail." Formal decisions, formal asks, etc. Ideally, these emails are sent on google groups lists as that keeps history for new additions to the distribution list. I wish more people still wrote personal emails to friends and family. I do with a couple of people. I sent a happy birthday email to an old buddy who I hadn't talked to in years and we had a small exchange. I still share some things with family via email, but most family comms are group chat sms now - which would probably be a better experience if we went to a dedicated service. People getting new numbers and adding/removing people to the group sms thread is impossible.