Email Zenmaster, AI help in Gmail that still sounds like me

I write a lot of email, and some days I'd like to be more blunt than I should be. Email Zenmaster helps me say the right thing anyway. It lets me write quickly without coming across as terse.

It adds four things to Gmail, and each one only runs when I click it.

• A sparkle beside the subject field suggests subject lines.
• Selecting text brings up Zenify, which rewrites the selection in place with an Undo.
• A right-click review reads the whole thread and flags up to three real issues, starting with anything I'm repeating and any question I haven't answered.
• A right-click draft writes a reply based on the thread above.

Writing like a person

I have opinions about how email should read. Clear, kind, direct, and free of the habits that make writing sound generated. So the interesting part is what it won't do.

Everything it writes is checked against a list of AI tells borrowed from my Is it AI? experiment. Stock openers, "not just X" contrasts, words like delve, and punctuation habits I've banned from my own writing. If the model slips, it gets one corrected pass with the problem named.

It also leaves good writing alone. Early versions rewrote everything they touched. Now, if a passage is already fine, Zenify says there's nothing to change and keeps its hands off. That turned out to matter as much as the rewrites.

Measured by Undo

The number I watch is how often a rewrite gets undone. A tool that changes your words is only useful if the change survives the next ten seconds.