Happy Thursday everybody!
How much of your email actually needs you?
Not "how much do you read", how much genuinely requires your brain?
Most of your inbox is stuff like:
→ confirming a time that works
→ replying "sounds good, thanks"
→ forwarding something to the right person
→ following up on something you already decided
You know the answers. You just have to type them out. Forty times a day. That's your whole morning.
Pick Of The Week - Lindy AI
Lindy is an AI assistant that manages your inbox while you sleep.
Not "suggests replies you still have to review one by one."
It reads your email, figures out what matters, drafts replies in your voice, and surfaces only the stuff that actually needs your attention.
You wake up. You open your inbox. And most of it is already handled.
Before:
You wake up to 40 emails. You spend the first 90 minutes sorting, replying, forwarding, flagging things you'll forget about later. By the time you start real work, the morning is half gone.
With Lindy:
You wake up to a short summary of what came in overnight. Routine replies are drafted and waiting for a quick review. The two emails that actually need your brain are flagged at the top. Everything else is sorted.
Same inbox.
You just didn't spend your morning on it.
How it actually works
You connect your Gmail or Outlook. Lindy starts learning immediately.
It picks up your tone, your priorities, how you reply to different types of messages.
The more you use it, the better the drafts get.
Within a few days, you're not editing most of them — you're just hitting send.
It also handles scheduling. Someone asks for a meeting, Lindy checks your calendar, suggests times, and sends the invite. No back-and-forth.
And before each call, it sends you a brief — who you're meeting, what you last discussed, what's relevant. So you walk in prepared without doing the prep yourself.
The time difference
Most people spend 2+ hours a day on email and scheduling.
Lindy cuts that to a few minutes of reviewing what it's already done.
That's not a small optimization. That's getting your morning back.
For things like:
clearing your inbox without reading every message
replying to routine emails in your voice automatically
scheduling meetings without the back-and-forth
getting briefed before calls without doing the research
making sure important emails don't get buried
My take
There's a version of AI productivity that gives you more tools to manage.
More dashboards. More prompts. More tabs.
Lindy is the opposite.
You describe how you work, and it handles the parts you were going to do anyway — just faster, and before you wake up.
AI went from "helps you think" to "does the task."
That's a meaningful shift. And your inbox is the most obvious place to feel it.
Big thanks to Lindy for sponsoring this edition.
Catch you next week,
Max