Chat with your favorite AI via email (with enhanced attachment and content support)
This advanced email AI assistant allows you to:
- Send emails to an AI for comprehensive analysis and responses
- Automatically transform your queries into structured research objectives
- Parse and analyze various types of content:
- PDF attachments
- Image attachments (using GPT-4 Vision)
- Website content from links in your email
- Get detailed, context-aware responses directly to your inbox
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Copy this Val and save it as an Email Val (choose Val type in the top-right corner of the editor)
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Set up the required environment variables:
- OPENAI_API_KEY: Your OpenAI API key
- MD_API_KEY: Your API key for the markdown extraction service
You can set these using Val Town's environment variables: https://docs.val.town/reference/environment-variables/
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Copy the email address of the Val (click 3 dots in top-right > Copy > Copy email address)
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Compose your email:
- Write your query or request in the email body
- Attach any relevant PDFs or images
- Include links to websites you want analyzed
- Send it to the Val email address
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Wait for the AI's response, which will arrive in your inbox shortly
- Be clear and specific in your queries
- Provide context when necessary
- Utilize attachments and links to give the AI more information to work with
- The AI will transform your query into a structured research objective, so even simple questions may yield comprehensive answers
- PDFs: Text content will be extracted and analyzed
- Images: Will be analyzed using GPT-4 Vision API
- Websites: Content will be extracted and converted to markdown for analysis
- Other file types are not currently supported and will be ignored
Note: There may be size limitations for attachments and processing times may vary based on the complexity of the content.
The AI uses advanced prompt transformation to enhance your queries, providing more detailed and structured responses. This process helps in generating comprehensive and relevant answers to your questions.