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I should point out that Penzu is not a completely free service. There is a basic free tier, and then there are paid plans with additional features.
Please don't break the back button. I like my back button.
I 100% read "Dairy Email" until the page loaded. I thought you figured out how to email me milk.
Shutdown announcement:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8345881
I used it and loved it. It was cool while it lasted. Unfortunately it's just one more example for why I don't trust startups.
Also you probably don't need a service, personally I can just send email to yourself, PGP encrypted. The only bit that's missing is a periodic reminder, to which you can reply. But I can probably set that up as a cron job.
>Private and Secure It’s as private as your email...which probably means not private. Like most people, I depend on an advertising company to host my emails. But I wouldn’t share my private diary with them.
You can encrypt those emails with PGP, the best encryption there is. A good email client can also learn to automatically encrypt when you send to a specific email, so you can send to a specific alias (with a plus or subdomain aliasing scheme).
(Also, calling PGP "the best encryption there is" might be a bit of hyperbole.)
I love that you took the programmer equivalent of a writing cue and ran with it. And I think this is a really cool idea to explore. I know it's largely a one person experiment and not a real business, but some feedback > I won't sell your data and will be very personal with you. This isn't good enough anymore. You need to promise that my data won't ever _ever_ be sold. Especially since you're asking me to share my di…
Although, a web service to share notes with friends is probably okay.
I just email myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ e: Also, I used to use https://750words.com which is quite similar.
name+ideas@ for app ideas
name+notes@ for random notes
name+writing@ for article ideas
(edit: formatting)