I have completely been feeling the same thing, but for me it's been more pronounced on iOS 16.
Also, iOS 16's change in dictation UX is quite frustrating given I was trained that it would stop listening after long pauses and it no longer does that.
This question reminded me of one of my favorite pg essays title "How You Know" http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html which is generally about how you acquire and retain information over time. A great short read if you have not done so before.
This looks really great! Would have loved something like this a couple of years ago before rolling our own, this would have saved so much time and effort.
Borrowing a lot of LaunchDarkly's playbook for feature flagging will serve you well here. Server Sent Events and providing a self host-able "relay proxy"[1] will be extremely valuable in terms of perf and redundancy.
Lot's of great things built in, but one that this community might find interesting is that we are leaning heavily on Markdown for note taking in the app.
This looks nice and kudos to the team (Ethan) behind it for shipping it!
I have tried similar tools in the past that convert Gmail into a Kanban board (https://www.sortd.com/ and https://www.dragapp.com) and have not had much success with that method of triaging emails. Perhaps it's a personal failing of my own.
Also, iOS 16's change in dictation UX is quite frustrating given I was trained that it would stop listening after long pauses and it no longer does that.