✈️ Shift your repetitive emails tasks to autopilot

Hello folks,

Writing repetitive emails for work suck.

We spend 15% of our time writing emails, that’s 6 hours a week! 

Here’s how to get some time back so you can go back to Tiktok working…

In this issue:

• 📕 Learn Something: Automate repetitive emails

• 💥 Trending Tool: Emails, Slack, SMS, socials all in one place with Front

• 🙃 Something Fun: ChatGPT for video just dropped

Let’s get right into it…

📕 LEARN SOMETHING
Automate repetitive emails

Writing and sending emails can be tedious, especially if they are repetitive.

Even more frustrating, you might be spending your precious time drafting identical responses or updates when you could be focusing on tasks that truly require your attention 🤦‍♀️

That’s where tool like Power Automate or Zapier step in, promising significant relief from these monotonous tasks.

Here is a quick way you can leverage this tool to put your email communication on autopilot ✈️

⏰ 1) Scheduled emails

Power Automate has many scheduled flow options that lets you send emails at whatever cadence your heart desires.

Simply create a Scheduled Cloud flow using the drag-and-drop tool, add the Outlook connector (AOL if you’re old-school 👴), and you’re on your way to creating a daily Good Morning email.

But… why stop there? Power Automate has tons of connectors that let you bring data from other apps.

Let’s use the Trello connector and add To-Do tasks into our daily email.

In about 5 minutes, you’ve automated a Project Manager’s daily ritual: sending unsolicited updates on tasks remaining to your team. 👮‍♂️

Want to learn more about Power Automate and Emails? Start here.

Related tutorials:

• 5 ways for email automation - Using Zapier to tame your inbox (3min)

• Inbox Zero - a well known system for managing emails (17min)

• Email automation options - Deep dive into emails and PA (5min)

• PA ideas - Different ideas to use Power Automate (2min)

• PA, Outlook, and ChatGPT - Bots that reply to your emails (15min)

• Harvard edge - HBR on spending less time on emails (4min)

💥 TRENDING TOOL
Emails, SMS, socials all in one place with Front

You use Outlook for long emails. Slack for team short messages. Phone for iMessage. WhatsApp for your family group. And Telegram for your one friend who doesn’t trust the government.

Inefficient and annoying doesn’t even begin to describe the above.

It gets even worse when you need to manage multiple email addresses and forms of communication for your work

That’s what Front wants to solve - to keep everything in one place.

Specifically, Front:

• Puts all your communication methods in one easy-to-use app

• Add collaboration features; for example, you can comment internally on email threads instead of CC’ing and forwarding

• Add workflows and automations to all your communication methods

If you’re still confused, this 2 minute video goes through it pretty well.

Other cool tools:

• AI Mailman - generate emails and email templates using GPT

• Superhuman - World’s fastest (and most famous) email experience

• Trimbox - Gmail extension to unsubscribe quickly from emails

• Polymail - Combines email with real-time collaboration

• Flow-e - Adds a visualization layer yo your inbox, Kanban style

🙃 SOMETHING FUN
ChatGPT for video just dropped

Honestly, it was only a matter of time.

Runway Research just launched this bombshell product Gen-2, which it calls the next step forward in Generative AI.

You can go from text to video by simply describing an image.

You can also provide a reference image if you want to be really fancy

This is really scratching the surface. Read the full article here, or try it yourself.

ℹ️ ABOUT US

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We like real, practical, and tangible use-cases and hate hand-wavy, theoretical, and abstract concepts that don’t drive real-world outcomes.

Our mission is to empower individuals, boost their productivity, and future-proof their careers.