Emacs as Email Client

Re:Emacs as Email Client by mycpuorg on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:26PM (#23422028)

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.

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Re:Emacs as Email Client by jaaron on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:46PM (#23422279)

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.

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Re:Emacs as Email Client by mycpuorg on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:22PM (#23424061)

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

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