Comment by munro

2 days ago

just use a calendar event, it's more robust, and gives you the same feeling of 'oh yea...'

Exactly. I give services like this - generally coded as someone's first "wow I know PHP now!" or the modern equivalent - approximately 5 years shelf life, at best.

Whereas I have notes-to-future-me on my calendar that I put there 30 years ago.

  • What calendar system have you been using for 30 years, that's survived that long?

    I think I sent one of those "mails to the future" in the 90's, asking 2002 me how I am. I don't think it ever arrived, or the free email domain I was using ceased operating.

    Sheesh, anyone old enough to remember the services offering a free email address with a choice of maybe 50 domains in a dropdown?

    • > Sheesh, anyone old enough to remember the services offering a free email address with a choice of maybe 50 domains in a dropdown?

      Mail.com is still around and offers a lot of domains, though I think the amount of domains has reduced over the years.

    • Not the same one all that time, but I've always exported/imported when I have changed.

      For the same reason, I have every email I've ever sent or received, going back to my 1988 FIDOnet account.

I don't get emails for my calendar events though (which is kinda important for my workflow, as my inbox is my task backlog)