Replying

Just reply

Hit reply, write anything, and send. Your reply becomes a note on the day of the email it answers. Type above the quoted email: the quoted part, a signature after a “–” line and “Sent from my iPhone” are left out.

Reply as often as you like. Each reply is its own note, and together they are the day’s release notes, oldest first.

What a reply can carry

• Words, up to 20,000 characters a note.
• Photos, voice memos and PDFs, attached as usual. They stay with their note. Photos, voice memos and PDFs has more.
• Tags: write a hashtag anywhere, like #maine-2016, and the note has that tag.
• Links: a link shows by the name of the page it points to.

Which day it counts for

A reply belongs to the day of the email it answers, not the day it arrives: a Thursday reply to Tuesday’s email is Tuesday’s note, and it mends Tuesday’s place in your streak.

Each email takes replies for 72 hours. Later than that, the reply isn’t added, and a short email comes back to say so (up to 3 of those a day), with a link to add it on that day’s page instead.

It has to come from you

A reply counts only when it comes from the address the email went to, and that address’s mail checks out as genuine. A reply from another address isn’t added; Release Notes emails you to say one came (a few a day at most), so you know.

Automatic replies, such as an out-of-office, are never notes.

Seeing what came in

Signed in, You, then Activity, lists what came in and what became of it, newest first: each note, each email that wasn’t added and why, and each change. The next morning’s Yesterday shows what arrived, too.

Changing a note

Every note can be edited or deleted on the web, emailed ones included. Deleting an emailed note deletes the email it came in, with its files.

No reply needed

You don’t have to wait for the morning email. Settings has an address of your own, under “Write by email, any day”. Mail a note to it from your own address, any day, and it goes in for the day it arrives. It’s also at the foot of every email.