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       Gmail AI Agent: Automate Your Inbox with AI-Powered Telegram
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       Author : olivierl13
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2024-11-12 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | tb303 wrote:
       | Hi. I use shortwave (AI email built on top of Gmail) but I'm
       | growing frustrated with it. I've never really gotten into
       | telegram as an assistant. Would you mind sharing why telegram is
       | the preferred interaction medium of choice here?
        
       | oli5679 wrote:
       | I used fyxer.ai with my work gmail for the last few months and
       | have found it's been amazing.
       | 
       | I send about 50% of the drafts without editing, and I'm surprised
       | by how much better at spam filtering it is than gmail.
       | 
       | Interested to try this out and compare.
        
         | olivierl13 wrote:
         | Super interesting! Out of curiosities: would you be interested
         | by a web version of this project?
        
           | oli5679 wrote:
           | I just spend loads of time on email.
           | 
           | Web version sounds great.
        
       | systemz wrote:
       | Telegram seems like strange choice but ok. I personally started
       | to tinker with something similar - IMAP client which learns how
       | you categorize emails into folders and helps with that. I started
       | with manual rules and want to connect some optional automagic
       | later.
       | 
       | I noticed that some emails are valid for only some hours and then
       | it's in inbox unnecessarily giving that +1 to unread badge.
       | 
       | On other hand server side filtering works before arriving in
       | inbox so you don't see for example, that parcel will arrive
       | today. Next day you need to manually archive it. After 10-20
       | mails like that, if you are busy - half of inbox needlessly needs
       | user action if you are into inbox zero.
        
         | olivierl13 wrote:
         | Well that's a valid point, I might add other communication
         | channel later, maybe the community will add a new one ;)
         | 
         | Interesting point - for the moment all actions are manually
         | validated on this project but I might also add features to make
         | the agent autonomous to some extent.
        
         | bgro wrote:
         | I haven't used AI for sorting email yet but have over many
         | attempts over many years tried to setup manual filters.
         | 
         | I try to make them as absolutely bulletproof as possible but
         | I'm still running into problems because email is so rough.
         | 
         | Critical Microsoft emails for example constantly have random
         | sketchy looking domains but are legit.
         | 
         | Or someone named "Don Otre Plyson" gets caught in the
         | "DoNotReply" filter and I never see his important message.
         | 
         | I don't know if I'd blindly trust AI to guess patterns better
         | than me where I'd have no way of ever knowing if I potentially
         | missed something.
        
           | systemz wrote:
           | Yeah, I don't trust AI magic either. Very precise manual
           | filters can run out of date quickly, "AI" can be
           | unpredictable. Maybe naive bayes will be a middle ground?
           | 
           | I use and like SpamSieve for macOS but it's limited to
           | spam/not spam. I would really like support for more
           | categories than two.
        
         | est wrote:
         | > Telegram seems like strange choice but ok
         | 
         | if you think about it, Telegram seems like the one of the few
         | mobile chat apps allowing easy bot integration.
        
       | corentin88 wrote:
       | Related, we recently released an AI Email Assistant available as
       | a Google Chrome extension for Gmail:
       | https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mailmeteor-ai-email...
        
       | ss6754 wrote:
       | Interesting choice with telegram. I see it requires to get user's
       | own Gmail api credentials?
       | 
       | I too recently launched AI automations for Gmail. I am a heavy
       | email user, so connecting chatgpt to my inbox was obvious to me.
       | When gpt-4 was released it passed my tests with 90% accuracy, so
       | I've decided to release it at inboxchat.ai
       | 
       | But while I enjoy AI sorting my emails, the most useful feature
       | for meturned out to be screener, inspired by this post:
       | https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-probl....
       | It sends all emails from first-time or unknown senders into a
       | separate Review Later label. If email is moved to Inbox, then
       | that sender becomes trusted and is allowed into Inbox in the
       | future. It's simple, dumb feature but so effective
        
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