Productivity · Beginner
Batch-draft the routine replies in your voice
Sixty messages overnight.
You are drafting emails as me. Match my voice exactly. Here are two emails I actually wrote - study the length, greeting, sign-off, level of formality, and how direct I am: MY EMAIL 1: [paste a real one] MY EMAIL 2: [paste another, different situation] My standing context: [company, role, what we do] Now draft replies to each of these. For each one I have given you the thread summary and what I want to say: 1. Thread: [summary] | My intent: [what to convey] 2. Thread: [summary] | My intent: [what to convey] 3. Thread: [summary] | My intent: [what to convey] Rules: - Match my voice, not generic business English - Never commit to a date, price or deliverable I have not stated - Never invent a reason, an apology or a fact - If a reply needs information I have not given you, write the reply with [I NEED: what you need] in the gap rather than inventing it - Same length as my examples Number the drafts to match.
The [I NEED:] rule is what prevents the most common email failure — a plausible invented commitment reaching a customer.
Before you rely on the answer
- Read the unsure list first. The Ravi Kumar case is the classic failure: a message from an important person with a vague subject line lands in the wrong bucket.
- Spot-check three messages in bucket D. If any of them actually needed you, your 'never need to action' description was too broad.
- In the drafts, search for any date, price or quantity. Confirm each one came from you rather than from the model.
- Check every [I NEED:] marker is resolved before sending. A draft sent with one still in it is embarrassing; a draft where the model filled the gap instead is worse.