My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure — The Message — Medium: Email v. Free software
Email is a problem that was created by free, open software, so, I reasoned, maybe that’s what will solve it, too. This turned out to be entirely true. I used a tool called offlineimap to download all of my Gmail. That took a few days. Then I needed to actually search this mail. There are a few options to do this, but the two that I like are called mairix, and mu. I’ve used mairix in the past, and it’s excellent, but mu has more options for listing and displaying email, so I chose that. The way mu works is you type:
mu find waffles
and it makes you a special mailbox with all the emails that have the word “waffles” in them. In my case, 99 emails.
Email is a problem that was created by free, open software, so, I reasoned, maybe that’s what will solve it, too. This turned out to be entirely true. I used a tool called offlineimap to download all of my Gmail. That took a few days. Then I needed to actually search this mail. There are a few options to do this, but the two that I like are called mairix, and mu. I’ve used mairix in the past, and it’s excellent, but mu has more options for listing and displaying email, so I chose that. The way mu works is you type:
mu find waffles
and it makes you a special mailbox with all the emails that have the word “waffles” in them. In my case, 99 emails.