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title: "AI email drafts from a note"
description: "Type the gist and OpenEmail writes the whole email body in the first person as you, reading the thread first so a reply answers what was asked."
url: "https://openemail.uk/features/generate"
---

[AI](https://openemail.uk/features.md#ai)

# Draft from a note You give the gist, it writes the body.

Type a line, pick Write this for me, and the whole body comes back in the first person as you, held in a preview until you accept it.

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In short

## What is an AI email writer?

An AI email writer turns a short instruction into a complete message, greeting and sign-off included. On a reply it needs the conversation too, or it answers a question nobody asked. The result is a draft, and the sender still decides.

How it works

## It reads what you are answering

On a reply, every message in the thread goes along with your note. The draft addresses whoever wrote last and answers what they actually asked.

## A line, a rough version, or nothing

Type an instruction or a messy first go, or on a reply leave the body empty. The subject and recipients shape the draft too.

## Nothing lands until you accept

The draft opens in a preview card with your note blurred behind it. Accept puts it in the body, Reject leaves your note as it was.

What you get

## In the product today

The whole body

Plain text with no markdown, opening and closing the way your sent mail does.

A subject too

On a message with no subject, it writes one from your note first.

Looks things up

Asked to explain or define something, it can search the web before writing.

Your prompt

The Compose prompt behind it is yours to read, rewrite and reset.

Good practice

## Getting the most out of it

1. 01
   
   Put the facts in
   
   Figures and dates only you know belong in the note, since the draft cannot find them anywhere else.
2. 02
   
   Address it first
   
   Content and tone are fitted to the recipients and the subject, so fill both in before asking.
3. 03
   
   Read before Accept
   
   Accept replaces everything in the body, your note included, so read the preview through.

Questions

## Asked often

Keep going

## Works well with

Your writing style

Drafts are shaped by how you actually write.

Subject lines

Write the body, and the subject writes itself.

Editable prompts

Read and rewrite the system prompts OpenEmail uses.

Start

## Your domain, your mail.

Point a domain at OpenEmail and read it in a mailbox built around it. The free plan covers one domain.

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