"Let's be honest: email kinda sucks. It's not just the writing: it's also the reading, the sorting, the figuring out what the third reply in a 15-message chain is supposed to mean. The good news is that artificial intelligence is now genuinely helpful when it comes to the soul-crushing drudgery of email. Free up the hours you spend every week typing, reading, and agonizing with these practical, AI-infused ways to tame your email."
"We've all been copied on the 27-reply thread with the subject line, "RE: FW: Re: Quick question." Reading it is an act of sheer madness. Don't. Use an AI assistant built into your email client-such as Gemini in Gmail, Copilot in Outlook, or features in services like Superhuman and Shortwave -to generate a one-paragraph summary of the entire conversation. You'll get the action items, the key decisions, and the final context in seconds."
"You know what you need to say, but forming the polite, professional, and correct sentences takes energy you don't have. Use your email service's built-in AI reply generator. With one click, your AI can draft a response, often 90% perfect, and all you'll have to do is polish and send. Here's how to do it with Gmail and with Outlook."
AI features can drastically reduce time spent on email by summarizing long threads, extracting action items and decisions, and presenting final context in seconds. Built-in reply generators can draft professional responses with one click, often producing nearly complete replies that only need polishing. Machine-learning prioritization tools can sort incoming mail into custom folders like Urgent/Action, Later/Digest, and Newsletters/Reading to keep the primary inbox focused on high-priority messages. Tone and style refinement tools can edit drafts to sound professional and appropriate, preventing accidental rudeness and improving communication efficiency.
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