Watch my inbox and resurface the emails I actually care about

Without being asked, Harry McCracken's Dot began flagging incoming messages it judged urgent or important in an inbox flooded with PR pitches. It also resurfaced an email from a freelance author that he had overlooked for weeks and nudged him to respond.

How it works

Read incoming email continuously
Judge which messages are urgent or important for this user
Flag them proactively
Resurface a weeks-old overlooked email from a freelance author
Nudge the user to reply

Why it’s worth knowing

It learned his real priorities well enough to rescue a message he had missed for weeks, unprompted.

Where it’s from

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

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