I used Gmail's AI tool to do hours of work for me in 10 minutes - with 3 prompts - ZDNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. I just had a 'living in the future' moment with Gmail, of all things. Here's what happened. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. 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. Also: I built two apps with just my voice and a mouse – are IDEs already obsolete? 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. Even though Google has been actively embedding AI