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Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
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#142I just email myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ e: Also, I used to use https://750words.com which is quite similar.
I use the Gmail "+" hack to mail myself on different topics. name+ideas@ for app ideas name+notes@ for random notes name+writing@ for article ideas (edit: formatting)
Isn’t that just an email hack?
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#143Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use the Gmail "+" hack to mail myself on different topics. name+ideas@ for app ideas name+notes@ for random notes name+writing@ for article ideas (edit: formatting)
Isn’t that just an email hack?
No, it's a gmail-specific "feature". Other mail services may also implement it, I guess.
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#145What do you use for sending and reading emails?
I’m looking to build a simple script that can send out some emails and respond to simple replies.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do I make this list be a list without double spacing or making it a code block....there must be a way?
Double spacing is your only option. Don't make it a code block, as that is unreadable on mobile.
Thanks for confirming! Thought I was missing a method for years. Oh well.
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#147This is a newer feature of Day One (but you have to pay to get it).
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#148Yesterday Paul Graham asked for an email diary service ( https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1216714155731890176 ): > Is there an easy way to build, or a startup that offers, something that will email you once a day asking "What's happening?" and then accumulate the replies? I did just that! Let me know what you think.
He also wrote > Unfortunately, though, in this one case I can't promise that if you build it, I'll use it. Unless I know you, I can't trust that you won't read my emails. (I trusted the previous startup that did it because we'd funded them.) How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ? I've seen the statement in your website: > Your data stored and transferred securely. No one will ever read or process your…
> How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem?
Have the user generate a device-local SMIME certificate for , register their certificate's public key with the server, have the server generate a mobileconfig that enforces SMIME when emailing anyone, and then in Mail.app change the From: address to when emailing the diary address. iOS will remember that From change and use SMIME to encrypt all diary messages to the public key in your keychain (which the server can't decrypt), the server can reroute the incoming mail back to you using your private key, and your device-local key is the only one capable of decrypting.
Since you're using SMIME, you'll need to use IMAP for your data store, which provides perfect compatibility to any platform that can do SMIME key generation. I'm very curious if SMIME-encrypted emails can be used as encrypted Notes on iOS, now that Notes supports IMAP accounts :)
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
He also wrote > Unfortunately, though, in this one case I can't promise that if you build it, I'll use it. Unless I know you, I can't trust that you won't read my emails. (I trusted the previous startup that did it because we'd funded them.) How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ? I've seen the statement in your website: > Your data stored and transferred securely. No one will ever read or process your…
I addressed it in a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22045670 > But once the data leaves the browser there is no way to know, wouldn't you consider to partner with Gmail(or others) and appear as an addon to an already trusted company in order to start off the business ? Also, I understand the concern and that Paul most likely will not trust their secrets to anyone. The problem is that's not a business, b…
thanks for sharing that article about the verification process, I wasn't aware of that situation.
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#150This used to exist, it was called OhLife. They would email you every day and say "What's happening in your life" and "Hey do you remember this?" with one random email from your history included. I always liked this service and was sad when they shut down. Pretty sure I started using it due to a post right here on HN.
I wrote WhoaLife ( https://github.com/vonnieda/WhoaLife ) when OhLife shut down. It's self hosted for privacy and designed for Heroku Free Tier. Takes about 15 minutes and no code to deploy.
I've been using it since OhLife shut down and it completely fills the gap for me.
I recently modernized the code a bit, ported it from Mongo to Postgres and improved the selection of the random entry that is sent to you, but I haven't pushed those changes yet. They'll go out in the next week or so.