so missive have introduced a email AI function and in today's video we're going to overview what it
means and how it works and a little bit more about the opinions of email and AI in this video so if
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helping you to find the best one for you so if you're looking for email applications right now
you can find a link to tool finder a list that we've provided with the best email apps of the
Year missive being one of them so let's dive into how this AI function Works submissive so here we
have on the screen what I have as my massive new command and for those who don't know missive very
simply it's a email third-party application that provides you with a great way to collaborate on
email but also use it as a personal email too it's really reliable from my own experience
for you using it for two years and the overall experience is is generally really nice and a good
build quality you can find a link to it below if you are interested in that but let's focus
on the AI function so they've introduced it with this AI open AI integration and essentially what
you have to do is add the integration here go into your settings find open Ai and connect it to your
missive account and most importantly you need an API key from open AI so this is not necessarily
a click pay use function this is a click API and then naturally pay separately so that is the sort
of slightly frictional point which AI is at at the moment however once you've got it set up with your
API key you'll be charged through your open AI account so I'm going to send a few emails in this
video and then what we're going to do is see how much we clocked up in terms of our cost hopefully
it's not too much but let's show you some of the functions here so the open AI function works at
the bottom left hand corner now very interestingly you can use the prompt here and essentially what
it's going to do is is going to use a couple of prompts that are pre-created like reply
positively reply positivity to a certain section reply negatively and the same with that one and
you can fix grammatical spelling errors so maybe let's go ahead and do that but what's interesting
is you can see here that there are a few different templates that are already available through the
missive system which is really nice in terms of improving how you're using it what is good is when
you're actually responding to emails that are in line and you're actually conversational this does
it for you so you're probably seeing the video as we speak but essentially it's actually doing it
for you when it comes to being able to like do it instead like it will basically give you like a one
press button and it will be actually done so here I might say something like let's compose an email
about next week's meeting on Tuesday the 27th and moving it to Friday that same week asking
if that is okay so you can do a few additional things like insert the answer on a new line or
save the prompt for future which is great for templatizing this especially if you're setting
things up so here we are I've pressed generate so this is what I got dear team I hope you're
doing well I want to let you know that next we're meeting on Tuesday 27th I'm moving I need to move
it okay so this is really really nice a very simple layout and really gets you started so
that prompt function Works quite nicely as well and what I can do is if I select this bit of
text please let me know if this is not possible and we can work on alternative time so what it's
giving me is it's helping me to fix the spelling grammars so you can select stuff and help to fix
spelling grammars but in this case I'm going to I'm not going to improve the selection I'm going
to associate it negatively so maybe in this case I might go make this more aggressive assertive
that's probably a bit more professional make this more assertive and I'm going to go and press
generate so what it's going to do is if not possible please let me know we can work out
and that's okay that's slightly more assertive let's let's play around with this and just say uh
oh I've pressed the wrong button uh make this line more aggressive you know being silly now but I'm
just giving you good examples of how this can be useful okay that is not even more aggressive but
I guess it's slightly more aggressive in in the work sense maybe I try to keep it tone down so
you can start to see how this is useful so I've done a few different prompts there let's go over
to open Ai and see how much this has charged me okay so right now it's not actually charge
me anything however this is something that I will post in the description below of all of
the actions I've done in this video and how much it actually cost me but largely I think a lot of
this prompting stuff doesn't cost a great deal at the moment for how much it's going to do okay so
if you do have an email that you need to respond to using the artificial intelligence technology
you can go over here and translate it there are some prompts naturally that mention it so one of
the things you can do over on the right hand side is actually bring up the open AI command area and
this is an interesting area because what it will do is it will help to collect across your account
to give it a prompt so I could say create a email for Sarah this week so as you can see what it's
going to do is it's going to create that in there and essentially what I can do is reply with that
pretty instantaneously so you can use the open AI alongside of this stuff as well as it popping
up down here so this was a just a snapshot of the technology that are around the missive AI
system right now it's very primitive in a sense because it's just sort of plug and play and you
need an open AI key to do this but it's a really interesting step forward especially for email and
to be honest it's something that I would thought of would have come sooner with email but I guess
there are some privacy concerns and difficulties trying to implement it with email versus a more
canvas based stuff like craft notion and even men so essentially my thoughts on email and AI are
it's a great match up and this is a great example of how a technology like this can be used on a
day-to-day basis and to be honest let's see what comes out with the price but to be honest if it's
around a penny for maybe six or seven commands then that's a reasonable price especially if
you're looking to save time and essentially reply to people in a more fine-tuned manner
but again it's working out how your personality and the AI is being trained so if you can base
all of the emails you've sent in the last year and get an idea for your voice then that makes
much more sense than using something that is much more generic and sounds a bit more stale
so for example in a year's time I think this technology will be much more suitable for the
open market to use but for the moment this is a good addition again remember we're used to using
the Technologies like this because for example when we use technology like this right now it's
normally inside of Google Gmail system helping you to auto complete a sentence and also replying to
people with messages so don't be alarmed at the evolution of this artificial intelligence it's
going to be quite rapid but something that we're going to hopefully understand a bit more in the
next couple of months anyway folks I hope you enjoyed this feature and please do let me know
what you think of missive open AI integration this was a little window into that anyway folks if you
want to read the full article about this in a bit more detail you can find it over on tool finder
linked below thank you very much folks and I look forward to seeing you in a future video cheerio
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