Changing my email is a pain

If there's one thing that is more time consuming than anything when changing your domain, it's changing to your new email address on every single website and service where you had your old one.

Thankfully, I have a stored list of such sites in Password Store (which I wrote about in my how-to on moving away from iCloud). Still, I needed to make a priority list of every site I have to go to for entering my new Email before I ditch that domain completely. And, believe me, there are a lot of places. It's a gargantuan task which I shall henceforth devote a little time, daily, towards that goal.

Fortunately, my Pass file is organized enough that it makes listing everything rather simple. I just wish, however, that there was some sort of secure service which could automate most of it.

Emacs with Org Mode certainly makes the task easier as I can keep a list of sites I have done and not yet done in a nice checklist. But it doesn't make it that much faster to do on every single site. It is tedious beyond repair.

I should have known this would be coming someday, however. When I originally got neurolog.dev, it was a sort of private joke. Neuro (mind) log (written log/blog). The .dev extension was just different enough that it made it amusing to me. But I always knew it was a temporary domain - it never struck me as something permanent. Chalk one up to experience for not ignoring your own doubts on a matter.

At any rate, I'm getting that list done little by little. I have a bit over three months, and I figure with 30-60 minutes a day of doing this, I can be done in a few weeks at most. But it doesn't make the task any more enjoyable.

I remember having to do this after getting off of Gmail after being there since the beta version - it took a long time. In the end, I just gave up after a while and set up a forward. I can't do that this time because that would require my keeping the domain, and I am unwilling to do that. So, tedious as it is, it will have to get done.

– N.