I remember back in 2006 or 2007 when I switched from Outlook email to Gmail.

During my Outlook years, I would folder most of my emails and delete the rest so that if I wanted to find an email, I could go look in the folder for it.

When I started using Gmail, I set up the same folders, but quickly realized that wasn't necessary because Gmail search was so good I could just search all of my email and find whatever I needed.

But the truth is Gmail search wasn't that good and like all you I have spent/wasted countless hours trying to find emails that I know exist somewhere in my archives but for the life of me I can't find them.

The arrival of the Gemini logo in the upper right of my browser has changed all of that for the better.

Here are two prompts I did today regarding a multi-family residential property we have owned in Brooklyn for the last ten years:

In this one, I was looking for a proposal we got back in early 2018 for a solar/battery system for the building.

In this one, I was looking for the land survey for the building:

In both cases, these Gemini prompts got me to the exact document I was looking for in less than thirty seconds on the first try.

Before Gemini, I could have spent five or ten minutes looking through many emails trying to find the attached document and maybe would have given up.

If you use Gmail and are not using Gemini to search your emails, you need to start immediately. It's a game-changer.

I started programming when I was in high school and helped pay my way through MIT by writing Fortran code in a research lab. I got a job writing software for a naval architecture firm right out of college, and then helped pay my way through grad school by doing some freelance coding gigs. When I got into VC in the mid 80s, I stopped writing code. Other than some UI/UX tweaking here and there, I have not written much code in almost forty years.

I remember back in 2006 or 2007 when I switched from Outlook email to Gmail.

During my Outlook years, I would folder most of my emails and delete the rest so that if I wanted to find an email, I could go look in the folder for it.

When I started using Gmail, I set up the same folders, but quickly realized that wasn't necessary because Gmail search was so good I could just search all of my email and find whatever I needed.

But the truth is Gmail search wasn't that good and like all you I have spent/wasted countless hours trying to find emails that I know exist somewhere in my archives but for the life of me I can't find them.

The arrival of the Gemini logo in the upper right of my browser has changed all of that for the better.

Here are two prompts I did today regarding a multi-family residential property we have owned in Brooklyn for the last ten years:

In this one, I was looking for a proposal we got back in early 2018 for a solar/battery system for the building.

In this one, I was looking for the land survey for the building:

In both cases, these Gemini prompts got me to the exact document I was looking for in less than thirty seconds on the first try.

Before Gemini, I could have spent five or ten minutes looking through many emails trying to find the attached document and maybe would have given up.

If you use Gmail and are not using Gemini to search your emails, you need to start immediately. It's a game-changer.

I started programming when I was in high school and helped pay my way through MIT by writing Fortran code in a research lab. I got a job writing software for a naval architecture firm right out of college, and then helped pay my way through grad school by doing some freelance coding gigs. When I got into VC in the mid 80s, I stopped writing code. Other than some UI/UX tweaking here and there, I have not written much code in almost forty years.