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An AI or concierge who reads all my emails, Slack, iMessage, WhatsApp messages, and alerts me when something is very important right now, and otherwise lets me
by manmal 9y ago
An AI or concierge who reads all my emails, Slack, iMessage, WhatsApp messages, and alerts me when something is very important right now, and otherwise lets me fetch aggregated inquiries when I have time to. The data I get should all have a 2-3 sentence TLDR so I can quickly skip them, and provide some sensible replies I can choose to accept or decline inquiries. Long informative WhatsApp/Slack conversations should be greatly reduced in length to just tell the story without omitting vital details. Since many emails require some kind of action from me, the non-complex ones should be doable via the AI or concierge, e.g. schedule a call or put reminders in the calendar.
Example: A potential customer and I want to go to lunch. They write me an email asking for the exact place and time. The service recognizes that this is quite urgent, and presents me a digest of the message, plus a selection box for time slots (with my schedule overlaid for context), and 3 of my favorite places. I choose a slot and a restaurant, and the service writes the answer in a polite tone, matching my writing and verbosity style. The potential customer then writes back an email saying they are looking forward to the meeting. The service knows from previous incidents that I prefer a canned response in that case and auto-replies "Looking forward", and adds a suffix the calendar entry "- confirmed".
It would be worth it just for the feeling of not being alone with that amount of messages crashing in on me every day. A personal assistant for everyone.
- kortex 9y agoI cannot fathom how many times things have fell through the cracks, despite Gmail's different inboxes, which do a great job at sifting out much of the low-priority/mailing list stuff. Would easily provide $3.33/day in increased productivity and reduced stresse