This is a good idea, but it needs more use-cases. Besides helping to write or summarise emails, which is more convenient to do via an email client plugin, the only novel feature it offers is sending reminders.<p>I want more! For example:<p>1. Managing my calendar and acting as a human PA, helping to negotiate meeting dates and possibly locations with several participants.
2. Taking over email threads (e.g. with customer support), answering on my behalf as much as it can, but escalating to me (a human) if needed.
3. FAQ mode – if I often receive emails with common queries and have to answer them repeatedly (e.g. invitations to give talks), it could handle those responses for me.<p>etc.
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For me I’d like to self host this on my own domain so that I’m not sending sensitive work to a third party.<p>‘Franz pay this invoice with my CC ending in 1234’
I feel like this is what Gemini is gonna end up doing longer term right? How can it act on complex tasks that aren't as simple as the ones shown? Have you implemented function calling to achieve these feats. btw?
(Un)related: In the late 1990s, as a student I had no internet, only limited access to email at uni and used it to request film data from IMDb’s email service, saved it to a 5.25” floppy disk and examined it at home.
In the day and age of shitty centralized platforms like FB or Reddit, I have fallen in love with email again. I manage my own mail server<p>Thanks for doing this. Yet another tool I can use.