Ask HN: Do you email yourself content? Why?

I email myself URLs of web pages I want to read later. I have a program that periodically checks my email and takes action on emails that I send to a specific alias. Actions include extracting the article/content of the page and converting it to an mp3 for me to listen to while I exercise or drive. If it’s a YouTube URL, it uses yt-dlp to download the video for later viewing. Etc.

Oh cool so essentially a way to personalize how you consume content? Is there anything your current setup is lacking?

I would say it’s a handy sink or inbox where I can route URL-based content for immediate processing and delayed consumption.

No current shortcomings. I am always thinking of ways to add features, but it works very well as is.

When I make a tricky calculation, I send an informal email to my coworkers explaiaing the unexpected parts. Six months later, when we need that result, it heelps me to remember and avoid the pitfalls.

Yes, sometimes because it is simple and it works and is asynchronous.

Then I do whatever it was I wanted to do.

Or not, because I also ignore email.

But these days I am more likely to make a draft email in gmail and save the work of managing my inbox.

Good luck.

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