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As many of you are no doubt aware, I have long been obsessed with the idea of filters and macros. I have spent an inordinate amount of time tinkering with Gmail’s fantastic filtering system, developing a labyrinthine convention of persistent filtering and forwarding that effectively reduces my manual involvement with an individual email to the act of opening/reading it. For example, an email from Kate that mentions Dan would get the labels “Kate”, “Dan”, and “SE++”; the same email, sent instead by Dustin, would get “Dan” and “SE++”, and skip the inbox entirely (though it would remain marked as unread). And this is just a simplified peek at what I’ve got set up. For some reason, this level of automated organization holds a deep fascination for me, a fascination second only to my profound affinity for relatively unnecessary gadgets.

Imagine my near-hysterical delight, then, when I found this little guy, the literal convergence of my two nerdiest, guiltiest pleasures, over at lifehacker, the possibilities for which have essentially sent me into an hourlong nerdgasm that is still going strong.