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Comment by AceJohnny2 | Hacker News Reader

I have DropBox, EverNote, and Springpad, on the multiple devices I use: work/home PC/laptop and smartphone.

The above tools serve to keep notes and files. Nevertheless I continue to use e-mail as an archiving tool because: - it pops up unread in my inbox for later processing. If I want to use it on a specific device, I can just leave it unread until I have access to the right device. - more importantly, email is ubiquitous, and I can have somebody else email me a file.

I still need convincing on what problem Hopper solves for me that the other tools don't. That said, trivially easy drag-and-drop file storing is cool, and I for one welcome our so-simple-my-grandma-can-use-it usability overlords.

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I found that I regularly emailed myself notes and files for later processing, and they'd then get lost in the inbox. I wanted to be able to search my notes (and only my notes), as well as easily share them with one or several people.

Every other one of those services got me partway there but felt like they were lacking (no web search, burdensome to use, etc). Paste and forget until later - no more than 20 seconds to save something.

Notifications and device web apps are coming, too. Does that help?

I just add "note:" to my emails and then I have a gmail filter that tags the messages based on that and the sender's address.

On a similar note, I have a gmail filter that picks up when the source and destination email addresses are the same, i.e. when I send an email to myself, tagged under 'self mail'.

I've been meaning to build this exact same thing for some time. Upon opening my inbox it goes "me me me me(2) me me(5) me". I found the same thing; Dropbox, Evernote, and everything else could provide the same sort of thing, sure, but they just don't fit in with the way I work. I don't want to tag things, or add a title, or install an extension or an app.

Open window, ctrl+v, move on.

One suggestion, grouping of similar items. If I find multiple links or have notes I want to correlate I usually end up replying back to myself so it stays in the same thread.

For the record, I just e-mailed the Hopper link to myself.

Nothing actually prevents you from doing the "Open window, ctrl+v, move on" with Evernote. At least mac version has a global shortcut for creating a new note in a default notebook e.g. "notes" and it also does search. No need for tagging if you don't want to.

Depending on which e-mail application/web-service you are using it is generally fairly easy to search by both sender and text content at the same time.

Here's a suggestion. Integrate with Evernote and you'll gain customers that use Evernote as an all encompassing data store but would like a filter for stuff like this. Also free exposure on Evernote Trunk.

Good point, perhaps Hopper should email the user with the file.... basically make an easier entry point to the email --- even if the email basically serves as a reminder. Hopper could even allow you to input when you want the email to come, if it's something you want to use later on

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