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JeromeLon | 11 months ago

This email passed unit tests.

I would love gmail (or any mail composing tool) to trigger my defined list of unit tests whenever I click on "send". Something similar to OP. For me it would probably be:

- the email must be direct and concise

- the email must be respectful of the recipient and of anyone else would could read

- the email must use proper English

And the AI would give suggestions to reach the goals if some of them failed.

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gioazzi|11 months ago

I'd love to have this, too!

There are a couple of things I'd like to do next:

- make it into a public API - so that it's easier to create plugins; - provide multiple "blueprints" for different types of text (in this case, for emails).

I think with these 2 features it should then be trivial to make it available in email clients, or as a browser extension.

diggan|11 months ago

> - the email must be respectful of the recipient and of anyone else would could read

Is this something you commonly struggle with? Sounds like something that could be a deeper issue than just "writing emails in a weird way", as you'd hit that issue using your natural voice, which you can kind of hack away in emails with LLMs, but what about communication outside the computer?

JeromeLon|11 months ago

I am not struggling with it in the sense that I need help on how to write in a better way.

It's just that I don't always ask myself whether the email I am about to send may contain unnecessary anger and would deserve an extra 5 minutes of cool down.

kuboble|11 months ago

As a person who frequently offends people unintentionally I think any feedback for any communication form is a good learning material.