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what is the daily-ish email?

Want to learn more about permaculture and homesteading and making the world a better place? This daily-ish is for you! It is written by people like you, for people like you. It's a way to learn about giveaways, get freebies, and find out about awesome threads on permies that are full of good info, and a way for you to learn permaculture and homesteading. It's full of avenues to make a better world by doing good things instead of being angry at the bad guys.

what does daily-ish mean?

We have so much stuff to share about the world of permaculture that we send out an email just about everyday in an effort to spread as much of this information as far and wide as possible. These emails are curated by a wonderful group of permies.com users and volunteers and cover all aspects of permaculture. In any given month, there will be something like 30 emails that go out, but some days will have none and other days will have three. Thus the "ish"!

free stuff!

We wish to have so many people signed up to my dailyish email that we're capable of using our strength as a group to make some serious impact on the world through permaculture. To meet this goal, Paul and the permies community are giving away tons of free stuff to folks who are signed up for the daily-ish. Immediately after signing up, you'll begin receiving free items from our community including rocket mass heater plans, videos, podcasts, ebooks and bunches of other stuff. From time to time we also give away tickets to events, online summits and conferences. Folks who are signed up to the daily-ish also have the opportunity to win books, tools, DVDs as well as other items from our online partners.

stuff we are giving away now!

Here's some of the things that we give away to folks who are signed up to our daily-ish email. These items and much more are frequently provided to you for free because you are signed up for the daily-ish emails. New free things are being added all the time.

Rocket Mass Heater Plans: Annex 6" L-shaped Bench by Ernie and Erica

The Greenhouse of the Future ebook by Francis Gendron

Rocket Mass Heater podcast gob

6 Ways To Keep Chickens - pdf download

Willie Smits: Village Based Permaculture Approaches in Indonesia (video)

permaculture playing cards e-book download

Hugelkultur Micro Documentary - HD streaming

Common Weeds And Wild Edibles Of The World (HD video)

19 skiddable structures microdoc

and at least 25+ more things!!!

You can see the entire current list right here!

stuff we might give away in the future

We're worried that people will just unsubscribe after they get their free stuff, and well, that makes for quite a transient army for changing the world for good. Can't have that! So, if you stay signed up for the dailyish, here are some things we may be throwing your way in the near future.

Rocket Mass Heater Plans

Sketch-up Files for 8" Cast Core

Hugelkultur Micro-documentary

More Podcast Gobs

More Ebooks

Permaculture Presentations

Natural Building Plans

Permaculture E-courses

giveaways!

The daily-ish isn't just a way to get free goodies and awesome threads, it's the best way to find out about our giveaways! We've done so many giveaways over the years, that we've lost count, but we've hosted at least 120 giveaways!

We've given away FOUR COPIES of each of these books and videos:

Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway

Essential Earthbag by Kelly Hart

Herbal Medicine From the Heart of the Earth by Dr. Sharol Tilgner

Backyard Dairy Goats by Kate Downham

Homegrown Linen by Raven Ranson

Straw Bale Building Details by CASBA

Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins

Hands-On Home by Erica Strauss

Around the World in 80 Plants by Stephen Barstow

Wood Gasifiers Builders Bible by Ben Peterson

Botany in a Day by Thomas J Elpel

Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist by Michael Judd

The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellis Katz

The Resilient Farm and Homestead by Ben Falk

The Permaculture Orchard DVD by Stefan Sobkowiak
and a WHOLE LOT more! You can see the complete list HERE!

As well as awesome products like:

a big set of tools, headlamps, hori horis, and pruning shears

the fokin hoe tool that Sepp Holzer loves

the winner's choice for any of Paul's kickstarter products

Permaculture Playing Cards

and more!

And, even tickets to events such as:

4 Tickets to Darren Doherty’s online course Keyline Basics - Geometry

2 Tickets to Dave Jacke’s workshop

1 Ticket to Advanced Farm & Homestead Design Course

1 Ticket to Financial Permaculture Workshop

2 Tickets to Regenerative Farm Enterprise Planning Course

1 Ticket to see Sepp Holzer in Austria

2 Tickets to the Wofati Workshop

1 Ticket to the Bullock Brother Farm Three Day Permie Course

1 Ticket to a Rocket Mass Heater Workshop

1 Ticket to a Community Conflict Workshop with Diana Leafe Christian

1 Ticket to a 14 day PDC with Larry Korn

1 Ticket to Paul Wheaton and Alan Booker's PDC at Wheaton Labs

Wait, it says I can subscribe for other types of emails, too? What do all those gibberish terms (Permaculture stuff, PNW stuff, Missoula stuff, and World Domination stuff) mean?

Permaculture stuff:

PNW stuff:

Missoula stuff:

World domination stuff:

Because we like to spread permaculture and make the world a better place, we give away a lot of other free stuff without even being on the email list.

some of Paul's articles:

Sepp Holzer

diatomaceous earth

cast iron skillet

rocket mass heater article

fluorescent light bulbs suck

Paul's permaculture podcasts

Paul's permaculture videos

these awesome forums that you're already on!

The forums cover:

medicinal herbs and cooking

managing money

and a whole lot more!

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Some of my gobbledygook about the dailyish ....

- we are trying to shift the dailyish away from "the paul wheaton show" and to the "permies.com community show"

- when we used aweber, the dailyish grew by 300 to 1000 people per month. But when we shifted to in-house stuff, growth stopped. It has been more than five years and we are still trying to mend this.

- I think that the dailyish is our most powerful tool for community growth and world domination

- thanks to the people that have provided cool stuff as freebies!

- if you have a cool thing to add to our freebies list, click here

- while more than a dozen people have worked to get the dailyish to be amazing again, I wish to give bonus thanks to Nicole, Bill and Devaka for this most recent big leap

If anybody spots a bump in the road, or something that might improve anything about the dailyish, please speak up!

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I am a daily-ish! I really like the ish part. And a great big thank you for all the freebies!

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paul wheaton wrote:Some of my gobbledygook about the dailyish ....

If anybody spots a bump in the road, or something that might improve anything about the dailyish, please speak up!

No link to sign up... Just loops to the give-away.

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Jeff Frusha wrote:

paul wheaton wrote:Some of my gobbledygook about the dailyish ....

If anybody spots a bump in the road, or something that might improve anything about the dailyish, please speak up!

No link to sign up... Just loops to the give-away.

Fixed?

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Alma Tierra wrote:The sign-up button is NOT FIXED yet. Try again! ~ Alma Tierra

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Hi!
I have tried to get daily e-mail but i don´t get any!
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krister ågren wrote:I have tried to get daily e-mail but i don´t get any!

I checked the database. It's looking like you are signed up properly on this end. Are the daily-ish emails going into a spam folder on your end?

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I have tried to access a permies site from the daily-ish email and the site says that I do not have sufficient privileges. I had this problem once before and R. replied to empty the cache and browsing history. It worked then but unfortunately not today. Any clues why? The email and screen shot attached.
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Paul Fookes wrote:I have tried to access a permies site from the daily-ish email and the site says that I do not have sufficient privileges. I had this problem once before and R. replied to empty the cache and browsing history. It worked then but unfortunately not today. Any clues why? The email and screen shot attached.
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What's the link?

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r ranson wrote:

Paul Fookes wrote:I have tried to access a permies site from the daily-ish email and the site says that I do not have sufficient privileges. I had this problem once before and R. replied to empty the cache and browsing history. It worked then but unfortunately not today. Any clues why? The email and screen shot attached.
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Sorry, I uploaded a PDF and it has come up as a download.
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Ah the covid thread.

Yeh, that was sad it went off the rails so quickly.

The idea of it "let's hear some personal stories" was a good one, but it just devolved into a bunch of generalities and cross monologuing that it couldn't be saved and got carefully tossed on the compost pile.

tldr: didn't meet publishing standards and got composted.

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r ranson wrote:Ah the covid thread.
Yeh, that was sad it went off the rails so quickly.
The idea of it "let's hear some personal stories" was a good one, but it just devolved into a bunch of generalities and cross monologuing that it couldn't be saved and got carefully tossed on the compost pile.
tldr: didn't meet publishing standards and got composted.

So it was RAPed (Rules According to Paul) and neatly tossed into the bin - Got it 💖 Thanks for checking.

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How do I unsubscribe from get receiving emails

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Jim w Bryant wrote:How do I unsubscribe from get receiving emails

Isn't there a link for that at the bottom of the dailyish?

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paul wheaton wrote:

Jim w Bryant wrote:How do I unsubscribe from get receiving emails

Isn't there a link for that at the bottom of the dailyish?

The link doesn't work then just takes you to log in. I am also trying to figure out how to unsubsidized since I get this email at two accounts.

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Christina Keegan II wrote:The link doesn't work then just takes you to log in. I am also trying to figure out how to unsubsidized since I get this email at two accounts.

So you created two accounts. And you wish to close one of the two accounts, right?

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I was running into this as well
the unsubscribe link (“to unsubscribe or fiddle with your email settings: https://permies.com/e/307915t36888274”) not actually removing my email from the daily msg list … after the link goes to modify the login and modify settings screen … I updated my preferences to exclude daily and after approximately a week the daily is still landing in my in-box.

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Bob Wilson wrote:I was running into this as well
the unsubscribe link (“to unsubscribe or fiddle with your email settings: https://permies.com/e/307915t36888274”) not actually removing my email from the daily msg list … after the link goes to modify the login and modify settings screen … I updated my preferences to exclude daily and after approximately a week the daily is still landing in my in-box.

It’s odd …after dinking around a bit it looks like the forum login thinks I’m two different people both under the exact same email … my real account that for some reason I can’t access is Erick Miller(alias) gmail addy but when I logged in under the saved email password it didn’t display my alias or let me post here … it asked for a real sounding name …so I entered another alias under the same gmail addy (Bob Wilson) …I imagine this is part of the reason the unsubscribe isn’t working either…. But that’s just a guess

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Bob Wilson wrote:It’s odd …after dinking around a bit it looks like the forum login thinks I’m two different people both under the exact same email

I looked around from the back end of the software and.... you were right! We have two accounts with the same email. That's odd!

I can merge the two accounts for you. Would you prefer to keep your name as "Bob Wilson" or "Erick Miller" ?

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Erick Miller is the real account with all the "stuff" and unlocks
The Bob one was the "fake" one I had to make so I could post a message... to try for a fix ... You can delete Bob or merge it whatever is most convenient

Thanks!

The email address and the Miller name should clue you in why Erick Miller is my screen name

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Thanks for confirming that, Erick!

I just merged the two accounts for you. You should now be able to log in as Erick Miller with your email.

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Thanks for fixing this

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I'm curious as to why the Daily-ish went from most days to multiple time every day?

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The dailyish tends to churn out more messages when there is a kickstarter going on. Lots of things happening quickly and a need to get the word out in a timely manner.

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I just took a quick look ... there have been 8 dailyishes in the last 10 days.

Of course, there have been some weeklyishes and some monthlyishes.

About ten years ago, when the dailyish was young, I remember I would sometimes go a week without sending something. And other times I would send out three in one day.

Overall, I like the idea that we get to the point that we put out about 32 dailyishes in a 30 day period. And they are good enough that people would be open to even more.

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I just logged on for the first time in a while, and I clicked on the view recent dailyish link. I think it is cool that I can now scroll back and see previous dailyisheseses (sorry got stuck there!) as well.

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Something Paul said one time made me thing of the daily-ish as a newspaper.
Not everyone has the time or inclination to scroll through hundreds of posts all the time. The daily-ish brings all the best threads and posts right in our inboxes. I, personally, love it.

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I got my mother to subscribe, and she says she loves it, but that she hates me now because there goes all her free time!

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I cannot find out how to unsubscribe. I have enough emails from you to last me forever. Please tell me how to unsubscribe 🙏
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Fenella Leigh wrote:I cannot find out how to unsubscribe. I have enough emails from you to last me forever. Please tell me how to unsubscribe 🙏
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All you need to do is go to your settings (https://permies.com/forums/user/edit/) and scroll down to email settings, and unsubscribe from the emails you don't want.

If you want to close your account and cease to get any emails, you just need to click the link in your profile. I took a screenshot of it for you, below.

If you ever decide you want to reopen your account, you can chose which emails you want. For the least emails, just be subscribed to the Monthlyish email newsletter.

I hope that helps!

P.S. I unsubscribed you from all emails, so you don't need to worry about it. You can log in and fiddle with your settings again if you decide that you wish to receive emails again.

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