iOS notifications unifies all my chat apps pretty nicely already, but I would still be really interested in running this on my own host, to keep a live archive

iOS notifications unifies all my chat apps pretty nicely already, but I would still be really interested in running this on my own host, to keep a live archive of all my chats. The thing I don’t have centralized is search, and too often some critical piece of information — which in the past would have been sent and later found by email — is buried in an IM from two years ago. If Element One’s search tools are up to scratch that could be killer. Support for Instagram DMs would be a must too. Dare I say it, support for email too? I’ve often wondered what that would look like, especially with buffering so that I can send a few messages and have them batched into one email. Most emails these days begin with one round of “Dear X, … All the best Y” but quickly become one liners, trying to get something done.