Inbox Zero x RealChar

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Inspiration

• As an entrepreneur, I don't always have time to read my emails. The unread emails sometimes are important and hard to spend only 1 min to go through those.
• Claude-2 has really long context window that can help here

What it does

• The app reads your unread emails and summarize for you (first with subjects using claude-instant, then with all content in the long context window using claude-2), and give you the action items to perform next
• If you have more question regarding the summary or action items, just ask it will know how to answer them (vector DB similarity search)

How we built it

• Use Gmail API to fetch the unread emails on demand
• Clean and extract the main information from the content of the emails
• Insert the email content as document into chroma DB
• When user asks summarization task
  • first bring all the unread email subjects into claude-instant model for quick one sentence summarization
  • then bring all the unread emails into claude-2 context for summrization, with prompt engineering to ensure the output listing the prioritized list and action items
• When user asks general question about the email, use vector similarity search to find the most relevant information and answer based on the context

Challenges we ran into

• Gmail response is hard to parse and there are many variants on how the data would organized based on different emails
• Email content is heavy HTML sometimes that really need cleanup before using, otherwise the content is too long to get good latency

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Get everything working e2e with low latency (with reasonable Wi-Fi speed)

What we learned

• Gmail API is not very straightforward to work with

What's next for Inbox Zero x RealChar

• Publish it as a plugin "Gmail enabled" for RealChar app

Built With

• chroma
• claude-2
• claude-instant
• langchain
• python
• streamlit
• vision-pro-sdk