Longtime former Spectacle and now Rectangle user here. An ancillary issue I'm curious how people deal with is efficiently getting the mouse pointer from one display to another. When working with two apps on two screens, constantly dragging the mouse all the way across one display to the next and back is tedious. I found Keymou [1] years ago to solve this with hotkeys but am wondering if there are other tricks or apps to help.
One might think so, but a quick search didn't turn up any results. Outlook for Mac has had AppleScript automation for at least a decade, so you'd think there would be some mention of it if there was.
I imagine IMAP would provide access to most cloud-based email services, and I bet there are some IMAP-based export tools. However, in my experience, Microsoft Exchange email accounts are only accessible through the Exchange Server protocol, whatever that might be. Outlook is the perfect intermediary.
I put this macOS app together to help me archive 250,000+ emails from Microsoft Outlook to local storage. (In a format that would outlast an OLM file.) It started as a simple AppleScript script and multiplied by asking myself, "I wonder if I could make it do X..." a hundred times over. The project was ready to share four years ago but a spontaneous cross-country move left it to languish. A recent HN "share your half-baked project" post motivated me to open Xcode and polish it up for 2021. As a former SaaS CTO and Win32 developer in a former life, it has been quite a journey down the rabbit hole of macOS app development. Unfortunately, the "New Outlook" doesn't support AppleScript to the extent the "Classic" version does [1], so its shelf-life is unknown. It's free to run in either a limited Trial mode or you can request a beta license key to remove the export message count limit. No doubt this targets a niche market, and it would be great if there is enough interest to support continued development.
I put this macOS app together to help me archive a decade of mail from Microsoft Outlook to local storage. (In a format that would outlast an OLM file.) It started as a simple AppleScript script and multiplied by asking myself, "I wonder if I could make it do X..." a hundred times over. The project was ready to share four years ago but a spontaneous cross-country move left it to languish. A recent HN "share your half-baked project" post motivated me to open Xcode and polish it up for 2021. As a former SaaS CTO and Win32 developer in a former life, it was quite a journey down the rabbit hole of macOS app development. Unfortunately, the "New Outlook" doesn't support AppleScript to the extent the "Classic" version does [1], so its shelf-life is unknown. Business/pricing model is TBD. It's free to run in either a limited Trial mode or you can request a beta license key to remove the export message count limit.
I started this Mac App project in early 2017 that uses AppleScript to export/archive mail messages from Microsoft Outlook for Mac. I was looking for beta users right as my family abruptly moved to a new city. I haven't made time to touch it since. It essentially went from close-to-baked to mothballed. I'll share it here with the caveat that it does not actually work at the moment due to an AppleScript-related error. If there's enough interest in the idea, I'll find time to look into that!
I'm in the same boat! One Windows laptop in the house dedicated to MS Money. With 27 years of financial history, and counting, it still does everything I need it to. Once a year I export it into Excel to do some forecasting and analysis. I'd really love if there were a reliable and future-proof way to get at the data. Sunriise[0] is the only way I know to export raw data but it has a few issues and the source code isn't public.
I have a feature in the fast track queue that sounds like the "draft response" you're inserting with script. Ping me - I'd love to get your input on that. lance at dailydiary.com.
After the demise of Mandrill I started to divide transactional email between Elastic Email and SparkPost. I send around a thousand messages a month through them and haven't had any problems with either. I still miss Mandrill though. I send high volume mail through Mailgun and have had a great experience with them and their API. I tried integrating with Sendgrid but they have some constraints around MX records that were showstoppers for me.
I began journaling in my 20's by quickly recapping the day's itinerary in a Sierra Club day calendar given to me on every birthday. (Sadly, those somehow went missing during a move years ago. I'm hoping they're just buried in the bottom of a box somewhere!)
Since 1999, I've been using DailyDiary [1] to journal and track specific topics such as my personal day-to-day activities, weight, exercise, health issues, kid's day-to-day, specific projects, etc. The key for me is to be consistent, and the email nature of DailyDiary tries to reduce that friction as much as possible.
Having so much (searchable) written history has proven immensely helpful on occasion. And it's fun to reminisce when reminded of an event in the past. The kids get a kick out of hearing stories of their past too.
Less functional in the sense that it doesn't support attaching a picture to replies and doesn't include a past entry in the daily reminder, but I'm happy to fast track both of those features if there's demand. Let me know if there's other features you'd like to see!
FireHOL looks like a neat tool, but seeing their last (official) release was in 2008 turned me off. I'm using Shorewall now, and as a plus, it supports ipset (mentioned by rw-).
1. https://manytricks.com/keymou/