ST is not free, but can be evaluated indefinitely with the occasional nagware message. I'd agree with them, especially if you're interested in doing more coding. You'll also need a basic text editor, which can be anything, but most people are going to tell you to use Sublime Text. It can be accessed for free under a Creative Commons license at .īefore starting, you'll need to download Python if you don't have it installed already.
The instructions below are based in part on the email automation chapter in Al Sweigart's Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, which I highly recommend as both a programming introduction and a cookbook for doing all kinds of fun stuff with automation. We'll do it in Python here mainly because Python is really good at making stuff like this easy and intuitive, even for non-programmers. Everything else is just an interface.Įven if you have no interest in creating an email-sorting bot, handling email as raw data is just an interesting thing to do. Email is in real-life just a series of text-based protocols for moving information across networks it's like the rest of the internet, in other words. This turns out to be fairly simple to do. To do this, however, I would need some way of connecting my actual email accounts to my email-reading program. Scanning through my emails now, it's clear that I could reasonably implement my assistant in computer code. And when I see the words "set of rules," I immediately think of writing computer programs. It would be a set of rules, ultimately, that they would be applying to my email accounts. I've joked about hiring an assistant just to manage my email, which makes me wonder what instructions I would give them: If such and such is true about an email, then take this action, or, if this other thing is true, do something different.
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