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I've done a lot of these January 1st look forward posts in the 20+ years I've been blogging. I've used many different approaches. I sometimes talk big themes, like I did last year. I sometimes focus on just one thing. And sometimes I just make a bunch of predictions. I am going to do the latter approach today because I feel like it and it's so much fun. 1/ Apple and Google will leverage their existing market power to surpass OpenAI/ChatGPT in consumer AI prompts by the end of 2025. 2/ Waymo w...
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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.
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.
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.
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Hi Casters. If you use Gmail and don't use Gemini to search your email, you are doing it wrong. I wrote this today about that. https://avc.xyz/gemini-makes-gmail-so-much-better
Absolutely agree. Still puzzled by the fact that it took Google so long to make Gemini useful across the tool stack 🤷♂️
Not using gmail for years now 🫡 But can imagine a vc would need to do a lot of email searches
An interesting point of view... thank you
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