I switched to mbsync plus notmuch-emacs a few months ago, after having been a loyal Thunderbird user for ~15 years. I had to change my workflow, but the new one

I switched to mbsync plus notmuch-emacs a few months ago, after having been a loyal Thunderbird user for ~15 years. I had to change my workflow, but the new one is much better and I do not plan to go back. I have always failed to regularly use TODO apps to remember stuff to do. So with Thunderbird I settled on the habit of keeping all the emails that required some action as «unread». This worked because I never fail to check my email during the workday and unread emails are easily recognizable in Thunderbird because they are highlighted in bold. However, in the end it was not optimal because not-urgent emails slowly crawled outside of the visible space in the email list, and it happened more than not that I forgot those emails. Since I switched to notmuch, I archive every email that does not require more action on my side, with the result that my inbox looks far less cluttered and only contains those emails that still need some action. It's true that I could have used the «Archived» folder in Thunderbird for the same purpose, and for some time before switching to notmuch I even tried. But it never worked well, because when it happens that I have to recover an archived email I had to fight against Thunderbird search tools, which are quite lacking: they are quite slow and I've never understood how to run complex search queries. On the contrary, notmuch search is awesome: powerful [1] and insanely fast. Apart from this workflow, I'm loving the fact that I can write emails using Emacs. It's my daily driver and I have a heavily customized setup, so it's really fast for me to type new emails, copy-and-paste snippets of code, reformat paragraphs the way I want, etc. One nice side effect of the switch is that I finally settled to dispose my old Outlook account (it's really hard to configure mbsync to use it!) and only use Gmail. The number of missed emails dropped significantly, as now I have only one email address to check. [1] https://notmuchmail.org/manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7/ https://notmuchmail.org/manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7/