[Tomte]

> Just nice to know what inane email you wasted time writing and what stupid meeting you were stuck in on any particular day when you look back at your life a few years later.

That sounds so bizarre that I'm pretty certain you're not really asking about "personal records".

And no, I don't steal my employer's data. You shouldn't, either.

[unscrupulous_sw]

This is an anonymous account. The unscrupulous part of my user name is in reference to another thread where I used stealing and sharing interview questions as an example so I am not really trying to hide anything: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20812755

But when I wrote that comment I actually did think that backing up emails would be universally agreed to be morally fine. It's just so tame in comparison to acts of the pirates who get idolized for building silicon valley.

The motivation for this question is genuine. I hate having a gap in my google calendar or not being able to recall the details of some project I was working on. But I did choose to move on so yea they are stupid fucking projects even though I might need to reference them later on when updating resumes and such.