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I email myself and capture in emacs org-mode.

I have an email address that is bound to AWS SES. SES listens for incoming emails and writes them to an S3 bucket. I then have a lambda hook which listens for writes to this bucket and processes the email content. This usually means writing an emacs org-mode record on dropbox. Which is then added to my emacs agenda.

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That sounds really complicated. Wouldn't you just use something like Syncthing to synchronize your org mode files across devices? I use Orgzly and Syncthing in my phone and it's good enough.

If you use it for general email stuff, just have a Cron job pulling your email down and append new stuff to a file that gets synchronized.

I don't really get why AWS, S3, or lambda are involved, unless you just wanted to see if you could do it.

I definitely used it as an exercise to learn lambda. I don't have an android phone for orgzly and at the time of creation, there weren't any solid iPhone org-mode apps.

I use org-brain on the backend and the lambda function does some processing to automatically categorize and such.

That is a pretty good idea. Couldn’t you bypass S3, though? SES can trigger lambdas: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/receiv...

At the time I wrote it, The SES -> lambda hooks did not give you the body content of the email and required a write to S3 first. This might still be the case.

I can't tell whether this is serious or you are joking. Either way that's unusual...

Fairly normal setup. I have something similar on my own server i.e. not AWS.

I used IFTTT for email->Dropbox for some time. Ultimately, I didn't leave much notes for myself this way, as I'm almost always close to a computer with Emacs accessible locally or remotely. For the rare case I use Orgzly on my phone, or Google Keep in a pinch.

I just e-mail myself, make sure to include “idea” or “business idea” or “game idea” or whatever in the subject line, respond to the email chain if i want to iterate, and periodically go back through the search results of emails I’ve sent myself.

I use org-mode with a keybase git repo. Works on termux too!

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