Just Use Email – How to Use Email for Everything

Most MTAs, in my experience, will add a Message-ID header to a message even if the client did not add one to the original message it sent to the MTA.

I've actually adopted some email like conventions when participating in Facebook comment threads. When I click the reply button, it will fill in the name of the author of the comment I'm replying to. I then will append "wrote:" to that line, add a line break, type a > character, and then paste the part of the comment they wrote that I plan to respond to. It almost looks like a quoted email message :)

> I wonder if the right solution is a private usenet server: just like email it is not instant but async, unlike email it is spilt into topics better and you can have new people catch up on threads easily.

With a private NNTP server, you will still need to set up accounts for others to use it. Though if multiple people run their own servers and set up the peering arrangements between then, then it could work without having to set up accounts fro multiple people.

But, the flexibility one can get with email in terms of organizing messages into different folders is lost with NNTP, since that organization is determined by the configuration on the server itself.

You are given a unique email address that is linked to your account and defaults to your default notebook.

The formatting of the email subject lets you choose any notebook as the destination for your email. You can also create a new notebook by simply adding a new notebook name after the "@" symbol.

You can add in hashtags to the email subject, after @notebook. These tags are included in the note and immediately searchable.

Simply add #planning or whatever existing tag you find useful. You can also create a brand new tag straight from email.

Using “!” then the full date and you can activate reminders.

Does anyone have any other apps or workflows that use this type of content-addressing?

Is that an accurate description for what this is? a content addressable macro?

I'd love it if Roam had a similar feature for emailing content into a specific block.

I found this short blog post that outlines this email feature if anyone is interested in checking it out :

https://link.medium.com/kiGPjqWSbgb

She gets dozens of emails a day. None of them are spam exactly. Every single website you've ever signed up for your in your life sends out email "for engagement purposes". Drips, reminders, flash sales, weekly roundups.

A dozen different job boards from when she was looking for work a few years ago. Several dozen shopping websites. Four or five pregnancy apps. And more and more and more.

You could argue that normal, non-technical people should know better. That they should be vigorously jumping through hoops to cancel all those email notifications from services they no longer use.

Don't they know there's fine print (in light gray text!) at the bottom telling you how to unsubscribe? Don't they know there's a tiny button in GMail that will (sometimes) unsubscribe for you?

But I expect that my wife's email is like a lot of people's. It is almost entirely impossible to find any signal among all the noise in it.