Urgent email scans a few times a day ended his 40 checks a day habit

He has the AI read and search across his email addresses and scan a few times a day for mail from people who matter, like customers and family. He has basically stopped checking email forty times a day. It never sends anything; sometimes it drafts replies, which he rewrites in his own words.

How it works

Agent scans the inboxes a few times a day
Urgent senders flagged
He reads what matters
Drafts written when asked, never sent by the agent

Why it’s worth knowing

The result he reports is not time in minutes, it is a compulsion gone: the inbox stopped running his day.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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