[losteric]

Browser tabs were a different part of the puzzle, for me anyway. This is my preferred way of managing information:

* My email pulls new information into my digital sphere of awareness. * Browser tabs/history manage active context and mid-term working memory. * Bookmarks (poorly) curate resources for long-term information retrieval. * My git-backed repository of notes tracked my own thoughts and plans.

Fastmail, gmail, and my old university Outlook account all support creating rules, however I am not aware of any RFC standards around rules. My adhoc suite of scripts for pushing content to email is entirely custom.

I like Thunderbird, but it's a pig at 300MB memory consumption... however it's open source and does what I expect.

[chrismorgan]

Sieve scripts (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5228) are the standard for email rules; FastMail uses Sieve scripts internally and also allows you to write your own if you desire: https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/sieve.html.

[losteric]

Oh that is so freaking cool, thanks for sharing!