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1. Fewer distractions. 2. Scripting keyboard shortcuts through emails - creating a to-do from an email with just tapping a function key, for example, or adding a company to a CRM with another function key tap. 3. Being able to delete emails with a Regex filter, which is really important for mailing lists. 4. Much faster latency which Though it seems to be trivial Google's research has shown is important to great user experiences 5. Ability to use neovim within the email client. 6. Local search using not much which again much lower latency than Google even for very large mailboxes.
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In this case, most of the analysis is happening locally without a ton of network use.
MotherDuck is an analytics database optimized for reading with columnar compression. Postgres is more of a transactional/general purpose database. Tuning it well for analytics would surely improve performance.
Most people won't tune a db with custom indices though because it can be hard, so purpose built solutions like this offer value in those cases.
The article isn't purely about performance but also ease of use. MD is an in process database so starting with it is very easy.
Glad we agree on the power within a laptop! It's underappreciated.