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I am a DevSecOps engineer.
Which usually means I spend my days thinking about systems, failures, security, and things that slowly go wrong when nobody is paying attention. I like calm systems. Predictable ones. Boring ones, in the best sense of the word.
I am also a father. I have a daughter. 👶
And becoming a parent has a funny side effect. You suddenly care a lot more about time, attention, and waste. Physical waste. Mental waste. Digital waste.
This is the story of how all of that somehow led me to build Dioveo.
Email was not broken, but it was exhausting
My inbox was not a disaster.
It worked. Emails arrived. I replied. Things moved forward.
And yet, it always felt heavier than it should.
Important conversations were mixed with newsletters.
Things I was waiting on looked the same as things that needed a reply.
Finished threads never really felt finished.
I tried to “fix” it like everyone does.
Inbox zero.
Labels.
Folders.
Rules.
For a while, it felt good. Then the system itself became work.
At some point I realized I was spending more energy managing email than actually using it.
That felt wrong.
Email is not a filing problem
Most email tools assume the same thing.
Email is information.
Information needs organization.
Therefore, more structure.
But that was not my real problem.
My real problem was deciding.
Do I need to reply to this?
Am I waiting on someone?
Is this just for information?
Am I done with this conversation?
Those are not organization questions.
They are decision questions.
And yet, almost no tool treated email that way.
Attachments quietly made everything worse
Another thing kept annoying me.
The most important part of many emails was not the email at all. It was the attachment.
Invoices sitting in threads.
Contracts buried in replies.
Reports downloaded twice because I could not find them again.
My inbox slowly turned into a very bad file system. One that nobody designed on purpose.
Every time I needed to collect documents, I sighed a little. 😅
That friction adds up.
Digital clutter is still clutter
This might sound a bit philosophical, but stick with me.
I care about the environment. Not in a dramatic way. Just in a practical, everyday way. I try to waste less. I try to be intentional about what I keep.
Email clutter is a form of waste.
It consumes storage.
It consumes attention.
It creates background noise that never really stops.
And when you have a child, you start thinking more about the systems you contribute to. Even the invisible ones.
I did not want to ignore that anymore.
I wanted something calmer
I did not want an AI that writes emails for me.
I did not want another complex productivity platform.
I did not want to gamify my inbox.
I wanted something calm.
Something that helps me see clearly, decide faster, and let go when something is done.
So I started building Dioveo.
What Dioveo is trying to do
Dioveo treats email as a decision problem.
Every conversation ends up in one of four outcomes:
To Reply
Waiting
FYI
Done
That is it. No custom labels. No folder trees. No systems to babysit.
You still use Gmail. You still read and reply exactly the same way. Dioveo just gives you a clearer view of where your attention is actually needed.
On top of that, it gives you better tools for attachments. Finding them. Moving them. Getting them out of your inbox and into places where they make more sense.
And when it comes to cleanup, nothing happens automatically. Everything is reviewed. Everything is reversible.
Calm over clever. Always.
Privacy was never optional
This part is important to me.
Because of my background in DevSecOps, privacy was not something to “add later”.
Emails are not stored.
Email content is anonymized before classification.
No user data is used for training.
Your emails stay in Gmail.
If trust is broken, the product has failed. Simple as that.
This is still early (and that is okay)
Dioveo is early.
It is not perfect. It is evolving. And I am intentionally keeping it focused instead of adding everything people might ask for.
That is why I am writing this.
Not to sell.
Not to hype.
But to ask for honest feedback.
If you are curious, try it 🙂
If you live in Gmail and your inbox feels heavier than it should, you might find Dioveo useful.
If you try it and something feels confusing, unnecessary, or annoying, I genuinely want to hear about it. Really. You will not hurt my feelings.
You can try it, leave, and come back with criticism. That is far more valuable than polite praise.
I am building this slowly, with care, and with the hope that small tools can make daily work feel a bit lighter.
Thanks for reading ❤️
You can try it here: https://dioveo.com