Mail as a storage system

I just read a great post on Tao of Mac where Rui Carmo explains how one may replace Yojimbo with something much simpler. Even though I have a Yojimbo licence, I decided to try it and it looks like a great idea.

The thing I really like about this approach is that data is now stored in some open format (maildir messages in my case), which can easily be synchronized (using IMAP) and tagged (but there is some work to do there).

Things stored in mail can be searched, and the nice "smart folder" feature of some mail reader would prove really handy. The one bit missing seems to find an open format way to store web pages, but Rui is working on it.

Finally, I also found newspipe, a RSS reader that mails the result of what it reads. As it can output its result to procmail, I don't even use it to send mail: feeds get stored immediately in a maildir folder. This means that I might stop using NetNewsWire...

Now I need to see if I want to sell my NetNewsWire and Yojimbo licences ;-)