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Reduce Time on Routine Emails ⏲️

If you’re spending 90 minutes or more a day on email, you're not alone. Consider these five AI-driven strategies to reclaim your time:

1. Automate Routine Replies: Tools like Shortwave AI can draft responses in your unique style by analyzing hundreds of your past emails. These drafts are fully editable, ensuring they match your tone and intent.

2. Quickly Digest Long Threads: Superhuman AI allows you to press 'M' for an instant, bulleted summary of lengthy email threads. Alternatively, you can paste a thread into ChatGPT for a summary or a draft response, though AI integrated directly into your inbox is faster.

3. Write Concise Emails: With Gmail’s Workspace Labs, you can ask AI to "write for me" and get a short, five-sentence email. You can also ask it to expand, shorten, or tweak a draft. There are six AI features currently available for testing within Gmail.

4. Delay Replies: Slow down back-and-forth threads with tools like Mailbutler’s Smart Send Later, which lets you postpone email delivery. As Adam Grant wisely says, "your email does not constitute my emergency."

5. Simplify Exchanges: Use Boomerang’s Respondable AI within Gmail or Outlook to wrap up threads more efficiently. This tool helps ensure your emails are clear and concise before hitting send.