Google explains how to make our smart emails

With the launch of the new Google Inbox, email client bid to increase the interaction between the user and the message, with the possibility of treating emails as tasks, and add not postpone common resources in a traditional email client, there are new options that we can show the summaries of emails.

Instead of a list of "issues", we can see more on the content of each email: dates in a book, RSVPs for an event, information on a ... data that can be included by programmers to program their intelligently newsletter.

That's what we explain in this article from google developers , the way forward for the programmers to include intelligence in the emails they send.

Article sent us developers.google.com/gmail/markup , a site that tells more about the codes that we include in emails to get the look and the aforementioned interaction, remembering that not only serve to see extra content in Inbox but also be useful for Gmail, Google Now and the Google search system.

The results become more and more cards, users increasingly want more data "at first sight", and programmers must adapt to this trend. We will now see what email marketing programs begin to adapt to this new way of sending emails to customers.

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Less.Mail, virtual assistant to manage emails via voice

As an experiment, Robin Labs, startup company based in Palo Alto, has launched Less.Mail, a virtual assistant for Android devices that allow users to manage their emails via voice. This makes use of artificial intelligence technology that the same company is developing for Robin.AI application, which becomes a virtual assistant similar to Apple's Siri or Google Now. From the same company say, according to TC , that if the launch is successful, they may consider launching into other platforms such as iOS.

Robin Labs understands that 80% of email use is routine, in which users simply write short answers, accept and reject invitations, or quotations are taken to their calendars, serving this vision as a basis for the application itself, where users only need to establish a series of voice commands to the emails you have on your trays.Among other things, Less.Mail, users have the possibility of automatic short answer or make further replies. They can also confirm appointments calendar.

In this regard, there are a number of outstanding questions, which is really know if this solution will save users time, if they come to adopt, if you also use it takes away the personal touch to the messages, or if it is a solution that could be well used for users with certain disabilities.

For now, to be able to use Less.Mail invitation is needed, which can be requested including your own email address on your website .

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