please someone disrupt the email space with an app that uses a LLM to give me options like:
“block every email that looks like an ad person reaching out to me”
“suggest the solution i am typing out now every time you see a support email that asks this question”
“automatically unsubscribe from everything that is a newsletter"
“block every pr request i get”
"rewrite every angry email i receive into a neutral tone”
@helvetica i built a developer demo that does a basic version of this. I’d love to hear your feedback on how you’d want it extended to be useful for a real-world user. Your list here is an awesome start.
My write up on the repo (repo link at the top of the article):
https://www.ashryan.io/nylas-openai-triage-email/
very cool! my initial response which isn't reasonable in context is that i am bummed by how many tools only support gmail which i do not use.
past that though, i think the real trick to a lot of truly great professional ai software is going to be building an interface to the ai that is configurable and trainable on the fly.
the magic of this stuff is that it's kind of a personal assistant. but nobody wants a generic personal assistant, the whole value is personal
@ashryan you can see this part of my ask in the phrasing of many of my requests in my post (learn this specific thing that im writing and also what the ask is from input so that you can reply in my stead to this kind of thing).
i think all of the features i asked for are much more powerful if they can be designed by the user rather than a checkbox that says ‘erase mean emails’
because you never know what someones habits and comforts are going to be
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