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This is a really great idea, but I find that I quite often just skip over automated email, which is why it probably won't be useful to me. This has me thinking

by apgwoz 15y ago

This is a really great idea, but I find that I quite often just skip over automated email, which is why it probably won't be useful to me. This has me thinking, though, how can I trick myself into opening up a (known) weekly digest email? Might work if it didn't come at the same time always (like, every 4, 5 or 6 days randomly), and the From header was from a person. But, I'm not sure on that.

dools 15y ago
One of the ideas that someone sent through in the form which I think is great is doing it by number of messages, rather than regular times. I got about 30 people sign up and it'll only take me 6 hours or so to do a basic version of this so I think I'm gonna go for it later in the week (maybe Sunday night whilst watching movies :) The ideas I've had emailed so far are: 1) arbitrary grouping (ie. aggregate multiple source emails into 1 group - so you could have your weekly newsletter digest) 2) choose your interval 3) choose to have it recur based on number of messages to this end I've just registered emaildigest.me instead of weeklydigest.me and I'm going to do it like this: groupname+interval+number@emaildigest.me where interval is hourly,daily,weekly or monthly, groupname is just your own grouping for this (single word tag only) and optionally you can include a number argument which will "purge" the digest. For example, you could forward all your twitter notifications to: twitter+daily+40@emaildigest.me and you'll receive a daily digest of your twitter emails - but if you get 40 in a day you'll receive 2 digests. I'll also allow you to set your timezone and time of day to receive digests. What do you reckon?