How I Stopped Spending 40 Minutes a Day on Email: The Story Behind One Extension

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Morning: I open Gmail and realize that for the next 40 minutes I’m not actually working — I’m wording things. Clarifying details, asking to send something a bit later, politely declining, reminding.

At first, I wrote everything myself. Then, like many others, I moved to ChatGPT. 
At some point, I realized I was spending too much time copy-pasting and switching between tabs, and I thought:
what if an AI email generator lived right inside Gmail and Outlook, so you wouldn’t have to leave the tab at all? 
Just a small browser extension that appears exactly where I already work — in the email interface. 
That’s how AI Email Generator was born.

In the vast majority of everyday tasks, the extension does one very simple thing: it removes the blank white screen. Instead of “How do I start?”, you immediately see a draft and work with that.

When you need to write an email from scratch rather than reply, the flow is the same. You open a new message window, set the goal and tone, describe the situation in a couple of words — and the AI email generator creates a draft that’s already pleasant to work with. As a result, you’re not staring at an empty “Write an email” field — you’re editing an almost finished text.

I added everything I was missing in regular chat interfaces:

Setup in a couple of clicks: Choose the intent, category, tone (from friendly to strictly formal), length, and language.
Quick replies: For Gmail and Outlook, I implemented a quick reply feature. One click — and the draft is ready.
Versatility: The tool works both as an email reply generator and as an assistant for writing emails from scratch.