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Gmail search doubles as a powerful AI command center.
AI can quickly find contacts, history, and draft follow-ups.
AI turns tedious inbox work into a rapid workflow process.
In this article, I'm going to show you how I used AI in Gmail to save myself hours of tedium and annoyance. In Gmail. No kidding. Really.
Gmail was announced on April 1, 2004. Back then, email services like Hotmail and Yahoo Mail provided 2MB or 4MB of storage. Google launched Gmail with 1GB of free storage capacity. Since that was 250 times the amount Yahoo offered and 500 times what Hotmail offered, the announcement was widely viewed as an April Fool's joke. But Gmail was no joke.
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While storage capacities have grown since then (my account has 2,048 GB), much of the Gmail interface remains almost identical to what was launched in 2004. Over the years, Google has released some gimmicks, like the ill-fated Inbox by Gmail offering from 2014 and the mostly useless AI Inbox launched this year.
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