Happy you found something that works.

What works best for my personal email address is very aggressively unsubscribing from notifications and labeling spam as spam.

Now that I only rarely get emails, I can very easily keep up to date.

A 5 minute glance into my email app is enough to be up to date for the last 2-3 days. About once a week I might receive a mail that actually requires action or a response.

Work is different. But I guess I get paid at work, so I spend way more time on my work email. But I don't like automatically filing work email, because if someone mails me, I need to take notice and perhaps respond. ADHD helps me with a positive reputation that I respond quickly when I not busy.

IMO Gmail is just terrible. Back in 2004 it was cool, but it's UX has stagnated for a long time, and almost anything is better. We switched from Outlook to Gmail at work and it's been awful for me. I loved the way Outlook handled meetings and reminders. It was also much easier to identify important mail. Everything looks like junk in Gmail, no matter how I tweak the layout and filters.

Personally I use ProtonMail, and I just started using Zoho too, both are faster, cleaner, and overall a much better experience.

Congrats on the effort to build and launch! Looks interesting. I personally gave up trying to "organise" email a decade ago. I just mark as unread until I can follow up or create a todo. If it's read it's handled. Once every couple of years I do a bulk archive/delete based on sender or keywords. That's my entire email org system and it never fails, because it's dead simple — It's the only area of my life where I've felt like I've consistently had my shit together no matter what's going on; having been through numerous todo apps and other org systems that never feel easy or remain adequately organised, so are eventually abandoned for something else...

Interesting! Nice to see some innovation in such a stale space! If this can help with phishing as described, that alone is huge.

I hereby introduce misc+whatever@gmail.com

I just read your article and tried emailing your “bare address” to test the auto response, as suggested. Very clever!

I’ve just signed up with another provider but I’d be very tempted if you ever have an instance based in the EU.

How does this work with mobile clients, actually?