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Gmail AI Agent: Automate Your Inbox with AI-Powered Telegram Commands

60 points by olivierl13 2y ago

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tb303 2y ago
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?
- rekttrader 2y ago
  A easy webhook to respond to and then supply a prompt is the likely response...
  - olivierl13 2y ago
    On Telegram It's just very fast to create a bot and getting started. I've tried WhatsApp before but too complicated and Signal was also complex. I'd say that Telegram was the easiest to get a poc working.
    - otoburb 2y ago
      Did you consider Zulip? I've always wondered why Zulip isn't used more often by communities. Seems like it could be a great hybrid between Discord and Telegram.
    - rekttrader 2y ago
      Frankly telegram is the easiest to integrate with bots… I know, I’ve been down the same rabbit hole
oli5679 2y ago
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 2y ago
  Super interesting! Out of curiosities: would you be interested by a web version of this project?
  - oli5679 2y ago
    I just spend loads of time on email. Web version sounds great.
systemz 2y ago
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 2y ago
  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 2y ago
  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 2y ago
    Yeah, I don't trust AI magic either. Very precise manual filters can run out of date quickly, "AI" can be unpredictable. Maybe naïve 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 2y ago
corentin88 2y ago
Related, we recently released an AI Email Assistant available as a Google Chrome extension for Gmail: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mailmeteor-ai-email-write/loclkojldkjladfhbngilnhbeffbkgdm https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mailmeteor-ai-email...
ss6754 2y ago
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-problem/ 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
- kanzure 2y ago
  I would use something like inboxchat.ai, sort of. What I want is to get proposed labels based on my usual labeling activity, and then I want to periodically login and review recommended labels for the activity (unlabeled unread pending email) in my inbox, where I would either speed edit some of the suggestions or accept the recommended labels. While I have hundreds of auto-label filters already setup, there's always constantly more activity to consider. So having label recommendations could save a lot of time. Or proposed new filters based on common obvious labeling activity already occurring in my inbox.
jerrygoyal 2y ago
I also built a related chrome extension to generate Gmail replies using Sonnet/gpt-4o. It does other things too. https://chatgptwriter.ai https://chatgptwriter.ai
aidopper 2y ago
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vldmr 2y ago
Telegram already collected information personal information. This is one more way to share my private data to FSB. No, thanks!

60 points by olivierl13 2y ago

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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?

rekttrader 2y ago
A easy webhook to respond to and then supply a prompt is the likely response...
- olivierl13 2y ago
  On Telegram It's just very fast to create a bot and getting started. I've tried WhatsApp before but too complicated and Signal was also complex. I'd say that Telegram was the easiest to get a poc working.
  - otoburb 2y ago
    Did you consider Zulip? I've always wondered why Zulip isn't used more often by communities. Seems like it could be a great hybrid between Discord and Telegram.
  - rekttrader 2y ago
    Frankly telegram is the easiest to integrate with bots… I know, I’ve been down the same rabbit hole

oli5679 2y ago

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 2y ago
Super interesting! Out of curiosities: would you be interested by a web version of this project?
- oli5679 2y ago
  I just spend loads of time on email. Web version sounds great.

systemz 2y ago

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 2y ago
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 2y ago
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 2y ago
  Yeah, I don't trust AI magic either. Very precise manual filters can run out of date quickly, "AI" can be unpredictable. Maybe naïve 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 2y ago

corentin88 2y ago

Related, we recently released an AI Email Assistant available as a Google Chrome extension for Gmail: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mailmeteor-ai-email-write/loclkojldkjladfhbngilnhbeffbkgdm https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mailmeteor-ai-email...

ss6754 2y ago

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-problem/ 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

kanzure 2y ago
I would use something like inboxchat.ai, sort of. What I want is to get proposed labels based on my usual labeling activity, and then I want to periodically login and review recommended labels for the activity (unlabeled unread pending email) in my inbox, where I would either speed edit some of the suggestions or accept the recommended labels. While I have hundreds of auto-label filters already setup, there's always constantly more activity to consider. So having label recommendations could save a lot of time. Or proposed new filters based on common obvious labeling activity already occurring in my inbox.

jerrygoyal 2y ago

I also built a related chrome extension to generate Gmail replies using Sonnet/gpt-4o. It does other things too. https://chatgptwriter.ai https://chatgptwriter.ai

aidopper 2y ago

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vldmr 2y ago

Telegram already collected information personal information. This is one more way to share my private data to FSB. No, thanks!