Show HN: Adios.ai – Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day

Post by juandazapata » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 7:36 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #6

juandazapata wrote: post #4

What's the difference with just checking your email 3 times per day? Personally, I've been checking my email before I start working in the morning, right after lunch, and before I finish my day. I have the luxury that none of my emails are "urgent" (i.e. I don't work in Customer Support), so I disabled email notifications and just take a look whenever I want. I'm a little confused as to why one would need such a serv…

My guess? The point is basically to create an aid to break your addiction. Why don't people just stop smoking? Why don't you just decide not to pull out your phone? Why don't you just put down that donut? Sometimes, we need an extra shove or hurdle to break bad habits.

Post by buremba » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

wolfgang42 wrote: post #31

If anybody wants to do this to their own GMail account without putting trust in a third party, this is pretty easy to do with the little-known Google Apps Script. You can write JavaScript that will run on Google's servers and do whatever you want to your account. (I use this to archive various automated emails if I haven't bothered to look at them, to keep them from cluttering my inbox after they're obsolete.) Here's…

Post by wolfgang42 » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 7:59 PM UTC

buremba wrote: post #44

wolfgang42 wrote: post #31

If anybody wants to do this to their own GMail account without putting trust in a third party, this is pretty easy to do with the little-known Google Apps Script. You can write JavaScript that will run on Google's servers and do whatever you want to your account. (I use this to archive various automated emails if I haven't bothered to look at them, to keep them from cluttering my inbox after they're obsolete.) Here's…

You could automatically archive the emails with that labeling feature as well, no need for the Google Scripts.

Post by fgheorghe » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 8:13 PM UTC

wolfgang42 wrote: post #46

buremba wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could automatically archive the emails with that labeling feature as well, no need for the Google Scripts.

Really, how? I've never seen any options anywhere to apply labels after a certain time. Or is there a trick I missed?

Post by wulfmann » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

xte wrote: post #49

Ahem, I read my mails from my maildir, sync-ed with mbsync or muchsync depending on what systems I'm using... So, if I want to read my mails at ANY interval of time I simply change my cronjob and imap-idle wrapper script to trigger a sync or I may only change my dunst hook to tweak notification. No need to offload to ANOTHER third party my messages. Sorry, pollice verso.