Back in April, Notion launched its AI-centric email client on the Mac. Four months later, Notion Mail has arrived on iOS. The app uses AI to help sort incoming messages automatically. Users can tell the system which types of emails matter most, and it will label and organize them accordingly.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/18/notion-mail-iphone/
Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, is gaining a more prominent place in your inbox with the launch of email summary cards, which will appear at the top of your emails. The company announced Thursday that users no longer have to tap an option to summarize an email with AI. Instead, the AI will now automatically summarize the content when needed, without requiring user interaction.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/30/gemini-will-now-automatically-summarize-your-long-emails-unless-you-opt-out/
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But Google’s onstage ideas were almost impressive in their ability to serve precisely none of writing’s core purposes. Its examples of Help me write calcify the worst tendencies of “professional” communications. They’re bland, bloated boilerplate that turns a human prompt into something that uses more words to say less.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/13/23719115/google-ai-help-me-write-communications-email