Hi, author of the blog here. It is not everything, but if you were optimizing for certain things like less distraction, fewer "fire fighting threads", detailed thoughts shared via email then Emacs is great. I have learnt to live in plain text for a while now and it is great because a lot the cases don't really require you to respond in html. If you are doing it often, it's probably worth attaching a 2-pager.

But if you are in a, say consultant role, where quicker email responses to clients, html support, MS Word like highlighting, then this is not it.

I'm honestly envious and this has me thinking about how I can move some of my workflow back into emacs because I do think it was more sane. Definitely allowed for more deep work.

I know, for some folks not already familiar with emacs that can sound crazy, but I've already invested in the learning curve.

True. I think the workflow will continue to be fragmented even with richer email content.

Speaking of practical, I really like GMail interface. Their system of tagging over folder really work well for me (I think there are CLI alternatives to do so).

But more recently, I'm pretty addicted to using the AI suggestions that GMail gives when composing an email.