Forward an email, get a note
Send or forward anything to your personal save address and it becomes a note — newsletters, receipts, ideas from your phone — filed and instantly searchable.
Every Dexi account has a personal save address — save-xxxxx@my.dexi.net, shown in Settings → Save by email. Send or forward any message to it and it lands in your workspace as a note, with the subject as its title and the body as its content. Hashtags in the message become tags, just as they would in the editor.
The address itself is the key, so mail from any sender counts: forward by hand, set up a forwarding rule for the newsletters you always keep, or Bcc it on mail you send. Nothing to install — if your inbox can forward, it can file. If the address ever leaks, regenerate it in Settings and the old one stops working.
Why it matters
Email is where an enormous amount of valuable reading actually happens — newsletters, industry digests, long threads with collaborators — and where it all disappears. Forwarding the good ones to Dexi separates “worth keeping” from the inbox churn, and makes them full citizens of your knowledge base: searchable by meaning, taggable, connected to your notes.
It’s also the lowest-friction capture channel there is for ideas. An email to yourself becomes a note in your system rather than one more unread message in your inbox.
Who gets the most out of it
- Newsletter power-readers — The five best issues a week get forwarded and become searchable research; the rest stay in the inbox where they belong.
- Executives and busy operators — Capture from the inbox — where you already live — without adopting a new tool or workflow.
- Real estate and field professionals — Listings, inspection reports and client emails filed by forwarding, straight from the phone between appointments.
- Teams doing customer research — Notable customer emails forwarded with a #voice-of-customer tag build an evidence base over time.
Example: A founder’s newsletter habit
You read a dozen newsletters a week. Most are skimmed and forgotten — but this morning’s issue has a sharp breakdown of usage-based pricing you know you’ll want when your own pricing review starts next quarter.
- You hit forward, type your save address (save-k7x2m@my.dexi.net — it autocompletes after the first time), and add one line above the quoted issue: “Best breakdown of usage-based pricing I’ve seen #pricing #saas”.
- Seconds later it’s a note in Dexi — your comment on top, the full issue below, tagged #pricing and #saas.
- Next quarter, preparing the pricing review, you search “usage-based pricing”. The newsletter is there — alongside two bookmarked articles and your own notes from last year’s attempt.
- The newsletter itself was deleted from your inbox months ago. The knowledge wasn’t.
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