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    Cora

    Every

    AI email chief of staff — screens your Gmail, drafts replies, briefs you twice a day.

    An AI email assistant that screens your inbox so only messages needing your response get through, drafts replies in your voice straight into your drafts folder, and summarizes everything else in a twice-daily brief. You can chat with it like a chief of staff — giving standing instructions for how kinds of email should be handled. Works with Gmail and Google Workspace accounts.

    Worth knowing

    Incubated inside Every, the AI media-and-software studio — six months in private beta managing email for 2,500 users before launch.

    • email
    • gmail
    • inbox-zero
    • drafting
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    Fyxer

    Fyxer AI

    An AI executive assistant that triages email, drafts replies, and takes meeting notes.

    An AI executive assistant for Gmail and Outlook that organizes your inbox by urgency, drafts replies in your own writing style, and produces meeting notes from Google Meet, Teams, and Zoom calls. Setup is one click via Google or Microsoft sign-in, and drafts improve as it learns from your edits. Plans start at $30/month per seat after a 7-day trial.

    Worth knowing

    Built on 500,000+ hours of workflow data from the founders' prior executive-assistant agency; raised a $30M Madrona-led Series B in 2025.

    • email
    • meeting-notes
    • executive-assistant
    • gmail
    • +1
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    Shortwave

    Shortwave

    AI email client built on top of Gmail.

    Shortwave is an AI-powered email client layered over Gmail, offering natural-language search across your inbox, AI thread summaries, and a Ghostwriter that drafts replies in your own voice. It revives Google Inbox-style features like bundling and a split inbox, with web, desktop, and mobile apps.

    Worth knowing

    Built by Firebase co-founder Andrew Lee and ex-Google Inbox/Firebase engineers as a 'spiritual successor' to Google's shut-down Inbox app.

    • email
    • gmail
    • inbox
    • ai-assistant
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    Superhuman Mail

    Superhuman

    Keyboard-first AI email client for Gmail and Outlook, built for inbox zero.

    An AI-native email client for Gmail and Outlook accounts, known for sub-100ms keyboard-driven interactions, split-inbox triage, and AI that drafts replies in your own voice. Now part of the Superhuman Suite — alongside Grammarly, Coda, and the Superhuman Go assistant — from the company formerly known as Grammarly. Mail is included only in the Business plan ($33/member/month annual) and up; there is no standalone email subscription anymore.

    Worth knowing

    Acquired by Grammarly in July 2025; that October the combined company renamed itself Superhuman, spanning Mail, Coda, and Grammarly.

    • email
    • inbox-zero
    • ai-drafting
    • productivity
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    Mem

    Mem Labs

    Self-organizing AI notes that file and resurface themselves.

    Mem is an AI note-taking and knowledge app that captures notes and organizes them automatically, linking related content and resurfacing it contextually instead of asking you to maintain folders. Its AI chat answers natural-language questions across your notes, acting as a searchable 'second brain'.

    Worth knowing

    Built by Stanford CS grads Kevin Moody and Dennis Xu; raised a $23.5M Series A led by the OpenAI Startup Fund in 2022.

    • notes
    • knowledge-management
    • second-brain
    • search
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    Reclaim.ai

    Dropbox

    AI calendar that auto-schedules tasks, habits, and focus time.

    Reclaim.ai is an AI calendar assistant that automatically schedules tasks, recurring habits, and protected focus time around your meetings, syncing Google and Outlook calendars to prevent double-booking. It auto-defends deep-work blocks, adds buffer time, and finds optimal meeting slots, with time-tracking analytics on top.

    Worth knowing

    Founded in 2019 in Portland, Oregon, and acquired by Dropbox in August 2024.

    • calendar
    • scheduling
    • focus-time
    • habits
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    Motion

    Motion

    AI productivity superapp: auto-scheduling, projects, and meeting notes.

    Motion combines task management, project planning, and calendar scheduling, automatically time-blocking your day from tasks, deadlines, and workload and re-planning as priorities shift. It also generates project plans from a description and takes AI meeting notes with action items, integrating with Gmail, Outlook, Zoom, Slack, and more.

    Worth knowing

    Founded in 2019 by Harry Qi, Omid Rooholfada, and Ethan Yu; raised $60M at a $550M valuation in 2025.

    • calendar
    • tasks
    • auto-scheduling
    • project-management
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    Reflect

    Reflect

    Networked, end-to-end-encrypted notes with a built-in AI assistant.

    Reflect is a fast note-taking app that links ideas into a backlinked graph, syncs instantly across devices, and keeps notes end-to-end encrypted. Its AI assistant transcribes voice notes, drafts outlines, surfaces takeaways, and improves writing, with Google Calendar and Outlook integration plus web and Kindle clipping.

    Worth knowing

    Built by Alex MacCaw, founder of Clearbit; deliberately bootstrapped and profitable, taking no growth-forcing VC money.

    • notes
    • backlinks
    • encrypted
    • second-brain
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    Taskade

    Taskade

    AI workspace for tasks, projects, and multi-agent automated workflows.

    Taskade turns prompts into apps, AI agents, and automated workflows in one workspace, blending task lists, projects, notes, and mind maps with real-time collaboration. Its AI agents handle research, writing, and reviewing with multi-agent handoffs, plus durable automations and 100+ integrations.

    Worth knowing

    A Y Combinator (S19) alum founded by John Xie; raised $5M in 2019 positioned as a more collaborative take on Notion.

    • tasks
    • agents
    • projects
    • collaboration
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    Sunsama

    Sunsama

    Calm daily planner that unifies tasks, calendar, and intentional planning.

    Sunsama is a daily planner that pulls tasks from tools like Asana, Trello, Jira, and email into one workspace, then walks you through planning a realistic day alongside your calendar. It emphasizes focus mode with Pomodoro timers, daily shutdown rituals, and time analytics over feature sprawl.

    Worth knowing

    Came out of Y Combinator's W19 batch and stayed small and profitable rather than chasing large rounds.

    • daily-planner
    • tasks
    • calendar
    • focus
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    Notion AI

    Notion Labs

    AI teammate inside Notion: writing, workspace Q&A, agents, and meeting notes.

    Notion AI is the assistant built into the Notion workspace, drafting and editing content, answering questions across your pages and connected apps, taking AI meeting notes, and running custom agents on triggers or schedules. Enterprise Search reaches into Slack, Google Drive, and GitHub, and the Notion Agent can complete multi-step tasks with workspace context.

    Worth knowing

    Notion retired the standalone AI add-on in May 2025, folding AI into its Business and Enterprise plans instead.

    • notes
    • workspace
    • agents
    • meeting-notes