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I think Apples data detectors features for email are pretty cool. It does some minor things like recognize dates in emails or certain things like recognizing ph

I think Apples data detectors features for email are pretty cool. It does some minor things like recognize dates in emails or certain things like recognizing phone numbers. I think some kind of advanced system that does a much better job of letting you sort through emails’ content or taking action with this data in some structured format would be useful. If I’m trying to remember the name of somebody I talked to years ago, I should have an option to see the first names of everybody who I ever communicated with. If I’m trying to find an old receipt, I shouldn’t have to search through receipts for half an hour to find out that the word I should have looked for is invoice instead: it should be smart enough to sort through all similar data. If an email mentions a location, it should automatically be marked in a map. Etc. I don’t use it myself but hey.com has some interesting and sensible quality of life functions. https://www.hey.com/features/ https://www.hey.com/features/

_8j50 5y ago
The problem with that is it breaks end to end encryption. Would you feel ok with having a database on each mail client that caches all text-only content for sorting/searching locally? Let's say a 1GB disk-space allocation for this feature alone ?
- logicalmonster 5y ago
  > The problem with that is it breaks end to end encryption. Depending on how it's implemented, I'm sure there are security issues to consider, but I'm not following how this kind of feature would necessarily cause a breaking encryption problem. If you can add some thoughts on how this breaks encryption, that might be interesting. > Would you feel ok with having a database on each mail client that caches all text-only content for sorting/searching locally? Let's say a 1GB disk-space allocation for this feature alone ? Given that modern HDs in most professional machines are in the 1TB and way up range, I'd say that anybody who wants to use the full power of email would probably consider that tradeoff worthwhile.

_8j50 5y ago

The problem with that is it breaks end to end encryption. Would you feel ok with having a database on each mail client that caches all text-only content for sorting/searching locally? Let's say a 1GB disk-space allocation for this feature alone ?

logicalmonster 5y ago
> The problem with that is it breaks end to end encryption. Depending on how it's implemented, I'm sure there are security issues to consider, but I'm not following how this kind of feature would necessarily cause a breaking encryption problem. If you can add some thoughts on how this breaks encryption, that might be interesting. > Would you feel ok with having a database on each mail client that caches all text-only content for sorting/searching locally? Let's say a 1GB disk-space allocation for this feature alone ? Given that modern HDs in most professional machines are in the 1TB and way up range, I'd say that anybody who wants to use the full power of email would probably consider that tradeoff worthwhile.