Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This week on AppStories, Federico and John talk about the 10+ email apps they've used over the years and how their strategies for dealing with recent spikes in email volume has caused them to change their approaches.

On AppStories+, Federico and John update listeners on their summertime agentic coding projects.

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Email Survival Guide

Apps and Services Mentioned

- Spark — sparkmailapp.com
- Mimestream — mimestream.com
- Superhuman — superhuman.com
- Shortwave — shortwave.com
- Missive — missiveapp.com
- Airmail — airmailapp.com
- Hey — hey.com
- SaneBox — sanebox.com
- Clean Email — https://clean.email/
- Dispatch — macstories.net/reviews/dispatch-a-new-email-client-for-ios-with-app-actions-and-snippets
- Mailbox — macstories.net/reviews/a-month-with-mailbox
- Inbox by Gmail — macstories.net/news/google-approaches-email-in-a-new-way-with-inbox
- Mailplane — macstories.net/reviews/mailplane-review

AI and Automation Tools
- Claude Code — anthropic.com/product/claude-code
- OpenAI Codex — openai.com/codex
- Raycast — raycast.com
- Notion — https://www.notion.so/

Hardware
- reMarkable Paper Pro — remarkable.com/products/remarkable-paper/pure

AppStories+ Post-Show:

- Our latest agentic coding projects:
- John:
- ReMarkable Paper Pure as an input device
- Creating an "areas of work" Codex orchestration system
- Federico:
- Shortcuts Playground 2.0
- MacRemote, an app that creates a remote MCP server for Mac CLIs and local MCPs usable by any app that supports MCP.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Email Survival Guide
1:24 - Our Relationships with Email
8:30 - Our Long Email App History
17:13 - Sponsor: Decagon
19:38 - Our Current Approach