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Quickly – Giving email a mind of its own [video]

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Re: Quickly – Giving email a mind of its own [video]

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post #9

App running inside gmail? How does that work? Are there more of these things? Can I write my own?

Well, this is a Chrome plugin. And yes you can write your own. Check out https://developers.google.com/gmail/ and http://gmailblog.blogspot.in/2010/02/gmail-chrome-extensions...

Re: Quickly – Giving email a mind of its own [video]

#16
post #10

Cool. After watching the video, I understand pg's post about founder accents better: http://paulgraham.com/accents.html I can understand you, but I had to focus on it, instead of focusing on your product. The screencast is fine, although long. Structure the benefits and features you want to communicate and outline these before diving into the "how". Script the audio. Don't wait for the sync to Asana.

Thanks, I have read pg's post and quite agree with it. I have tried to keep the voice as clear as possible but the Indian accent just pops up :-)

Your suggestions are really useful. I will try to list out the benefits we have in mind on the website as well as write a post about it.

Re: Quickly – Giving email a mind of its own [video]

#17
post #13

Cool project. If I understand, it learns what emails mean and what actions should be triggered across all users. So I guess it must store my emails and actions somewhere, to participate to this across-the-board learning. I wonder if users will be concerned about this.

Good point. In fact, we are concerned about that quite a bit - so much so that we will soon be releasing details of how reconstructing somebody's email is close to impossible, even by the Quickly team. Basically, we are storing only patterns, not email content directly.

Re: Quickly – Giving email a mind of its own [video]

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post #12

My initial thought was how most email enhancement ideas actually create more work than they save in the long run. That was until I saw the demo. Looks like this could be a tremendous time saver. Kudos on the work.

Thanks jmathai. We believe that everything that can be delegated to programs, should be.

Re: Quickly – Giving email a mind of its own [video]

#20

This is really cool. I am currently studying NLP and ML and these are the kind of things I want to build to make the world a better place. I would love to read a post about the kinds of classifiers and features you use for this service.

Thanks wodenokoto, While we cannot share complete details of the technology, we do plan to have a beginner's post on how we have leveraged these technologies.
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