Comment by d1sxeyes
2 days ago
That makes sense.
Do you have a way to limit how much space you use on the user’s device? I hate the Mac/iOS Mail apps which I’m using now because they download gigabytes and gigabytes of emails from forever ago and slurp up all my disk space. Especially with an offline first app, that would be a concern for me.
Another great question, and something we've been pondering deeply in recent weeks.
Our current iteration of Marco stores full and complete _metadata_, but not message bodies or attachments.
This means we can do rudimentary full-text search, filtering, sorting, etc over your entire corpus of email content.
Full-text search in particular is incredibly compelling. Imagine having ~2ms search results for every email account you own. That is the current Marco performance.
In addition to that, Marco optimistically preloads messages bodies. This means that in practice, when opening an email you should see content load instantly. Any email you open will be cached offline in a LIFO stack.
Despite all of this, we're hyper aware of not overreaching in terms of disk space. For example, my personal email address is ~10GB according to the Gmail storage dashboard, but compresses to ~140MB of metadata, indices, and cached message bodies within Marco.
We will very likely expose storage settings/limits in the longer term future.
Cool! I’m on the waitlist, look forward to testing it out!