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Mail: a local privacy focused searchable database

Draft mail is the WordPress custom post-type of databases.

Ultimately all productivity apps for privacy focused folks trend towards a locally synced database containing stuff. A database searched with an interface you already use. This is e-mail, if that wasn’t already ruined by untrusted parties.

For example

  1. Notes: mail in a folder
  2. Bookmarks: page content referenced by a URI as mail in a folder.
  3. Todos: mail in a folder

Some of these use a man in the middle process to filter content, and high volume incoming / outgoing mail might get your account in trouble. So there are webservices with paid options to sustain them, with data export and privacy concerns.

In 2005, Sander started his professional career in the education sector building content management systems and systems automation. At his last job, he worked at one of the leading media organisations in the UK where he helped build and support a WordPress based publishing platform for regional newspapers and magazines. He worked on the first iteration of the core sitemaps feature of WordPress 5.5.

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  1. @sander I used to use email like that. But as I got older I found that my desire to have an overflowing inbox waned. Now I only keep stuff there for as long as I need it, then it’s dispensed with. Todos go to Reminders or Calendar, important emails get archived into DEVONthink, where they can be merged into conversation documents for posterity.