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Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

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Post by canistr »

I like the idea of re-naming these as a form of mini-notes.

But now that Gmail is getting into providing context for emails (such as flight check-ins), I'd like it if the auto-generated emails could also learn based on summaries I provide. Kind of like a filter rule based on what I've done in the past to re-name the email to what I'm looking for.

Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

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Post by tehwebguy »

canistr wrote: post #3

I like the idea of re-naming these as a form of mini-notes. But now that Gmail is getting into providing context for emails (such as flight check-ins), I'd like it if the auto-generated emails could also learn based on summaries I provide. Kind of like a filter rule based on what I've done in the past to re-name the email to what I'm looking for.

This is such a great idea. Like if you could somehow turn the massive emails chocked full of garbage from airlines into something that just says:

  MCO > JFK 9/18 1:00 PM EFZG94

Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

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Post by phalanx101 »

canistr wrote: post #3

I like the idea of re-naming these as a form of mini-notes. But now that Gmail is getting into providing context for emails (such as flight check-ins), I'd like it if the auto-generated emails could also learn based on summaries I provide. Kind of like a filter rule based on what I've done in the past to re-name the email to what I'm looking for.

I love this idea. I'd love it even more if they had an API and I could pull my todo list into my terminal.

Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

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Post by gsundeep »

canistr wrote: post #3

I like the idea of re-naming these as a form of mini-notes. But now that Gmail is getting into providing context for emails (such as flight check-ins), I'd like it if the auto-generated emails could also learn based on summaries I provide. Kind of like a filter rule based on what I've done in the past to re-name the email to what I'm looking for.

This is where we see Signal moving forward - automatically summarizing emails based on your previous editing patterns.
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