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I wrote an email service that actually works for me and my ADHD. (sciactive.com)

submitted 1 year ago by hperrin to c/adhd

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Hi, I’m Hunter Perrin. I created an email service called Port87.

I have ADHD, and keeping my email organized has always been a struggle. Three years ago, I started using a new organization strategy for my email where I’d add plus tags and use filters to move them into labels, “hperrin+whatever@gmail”. This worked for a few months until I got lazy and stopped creating the filters. Then my inbox slowly became just as messy as before.

So I spent the last two years writing my own email service that does it automatically. You can’t even use your address without a label. Everything is organized based on the address you give out, so I have an address for everything.

Anyway, I wanted to share this with you guys. It’s my experience of using my own email service. Obviously, I’m biased, but I still think it’s a valid take on the struggles of email organization with ADHD. If nothing else, maybe the plus tag system can help you out with your current email provider. :)

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[–] WhatAmLemmy 6 points 1 year ago

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...