I used Gmail’s AI tool to do hours of work for me in 10 minutes – with 3 prompts

Photo credit: Solen Feyissa via Unsplash. Article by David Gewirtz. ZDNET – April 1, 2026.

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. […]

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