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Good idea! I am always happy to see more tools come up around the email inbox. Few suggestions -

1. Your privacy page is empty.

2. Instead of asking me to enter a feed URL during signup, you could just start with the email, and then on the next screen, you could show me your list of feed suggestions. I think that would simplify the signup flow.

All the best!

Shameless plug: I run a similar tool called EmailThis [0] that brings bookmarking (similar to Pocket and Instapaper) to your email inbox.

[0] https://www.emailthis.me


Hey - thanks for the link and the suggestions :)


I am also a big fan of Print to PDF. I've actually built a simple bookmarking service [0] that does just this.

EmailThis extracts meaningful content from web pages and sends it to your email inbox. You can also tell it to save a PDF copy of each page, in which case the PDF is sent as an attachment.

Print-to-Pdf is done using Headless Chrome (so it works exactly like doing a Ctrl-P).

I find that the Print to PDF works best because it gives you a copy of the web page even if the original one disappears. Also, none of the content extraction services (mine included) work in 100% of the cases. Sometimes, they might incorrectly remove images and other meaningful content. So in such cases, having a full PDF snapshot is quite handy.

Let me know what you guys think.

[0] https://www.emailthis.me


Nice way to find out what everyone is reading while gathering addresses of smart people. ;)

> Sometimes, they might incorrectly remove images and other meaningful content. So in such cases, having a full PDF snapshot is quite handy.

Also interesting is that the context is preserved locally across visits to the site - over 10 years, I have gathered a pretty interesting view of some of the various A/B changes that have gone on, on my favourite 'daily visit' sites ..

And, it is often very revealing of my own habits. This highlights the privacy-factor of having a local-file based bookmark/ontology system a little more in my favour.


I have always wanted to learn DevOps. I use Heroku for almost all my apps, but I wanted to learn what is happening every time I do git push heroku master.

I started learning Ansible recently using the 'Ansible for Devops' book. I used the concepts mentioned in this book and used the author's Ansible roles as a starting point to create a playbook for deploying Rails 6 apps.

Here's the code - https://github.com/EmailThis/ansible-rails

It includes roles for performing the following tasks -

* Installation of common packages, basic SSH security

* Install NGINX, Certbot (for Letsencrypt SSL Certs)

* Ruby (via rbenv)

* Rails 6, Puma, Sidekiq

* Redis

* Nodejs/Webpack/yarn

* Postgresql + saving backups to S3

* Deploying using Ansistrano


Thanks, this is really interesting.


I've got close to 3000 bookmarks.

Almost all of them are saved as full text + PDF in my email (Gmail) inbox under separate labels like 'JS', 'Design', 'SEO' etc.

Gmail's search is pretty decent so it helps me find stuff that I am looking for quickly.


I run a minimal email-based bookmarking service called EmailThis.me [1].

EmailThis removes ads, distractions, and clutter from web pages and sends you a nicely formatted email with just the text and essential images. It also gives you the option to save a full PDF snapshot of each web page which is then sent as the email attachment.

It is meant to be a simpler alternative to tools like Pocket, Instapaper, and Evernote.

[1] https://www.emailthis.me


50% Off on EmailThis Lifetime Plan - https://www.emailthis.me/lifetime-premium/black-friday

EmailThis helps you save ad-free articles & web pages to your email inbox.


Yes. I email myself almost everyday. I've even made a browser extension for it - https://www.emailthis.me


I'd like to launch Highlightify (https://highlightify.com) - a simple way to highlight and annotate web pages.


I run a minimal alternative to Instapaper called EmailThis [1].

It lets you save complete articles and webpages to your email inbox. If it fails to extract useful text, EmailThis will save the page to a PDF and send it as an attachment.

There's no need to install additional apps on your phone or login to any 3rd party service.

[1] https://www.emailthis.me


Really nice work.

I've had a great experience working with Headless Chrome to convert webpages to PDF for my side project EmailThis (https://www.emailthis.me).

It uses Puppeteer by Chrome DevTools team - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer.


Appreciate it. EmailThis lookes very cool! I have considered using Puppeteer for pdf-bot, it came out right after I finished it :-)


Cool project! I think I am going to start regularly making use of it. Does it email you a PDF attachment, or does it just send an email with the contents of the article within it? When I attempted to use it I did not see a pdf attachment. Regardless/either way, really cool project.


Thanks, if it is unable to extract useful content from a page, EmailThis will save it as PDF as send it as an attachmentment.

If you try saving a any discussion website (HN, Stackoverflow, Reddit), you will get the PDF.


Just a heads up -- your site emailthis.me is down.


Sorry about the brief downtime. It's back up now.


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