Inspiration
Imagine a marketing team working on a new product launch campaign. The team members frequently communicate and share ideas through email threads. However, as the campaign progresses, the email threads become increasingly long and complex, making it challenging to keep track of important discussions and action items. Here comes LinkLoom - API tool that allow users to collaborate within email threads by adding annotations.
How the Feature Helps:
LinkLoom greatly benefits the marketing team in this scenario:
Highlighting Key Information: Team members can highlight specific portions of emails that contain crucial information, such as campaign strategies, design mock-ups, or deadlines.
Adding Contextual Comments: Within the email thread, they can add contextual comments or notes to explain why a particular part of the email is significant or to suggest revisions.
Tracking Action Items: As the discussion progresses, the team can create thread-level notes summarizing action items and decisions made during the email exchange.
Searching for Information: As the campaign evolves, team members can easily search for annotations within the email thread, making it effortless to find specific discussions, decisions, or action items.
By using this API, the marketing team can streamline their collaboration within email threads, maintain a clear record of important information, and ensure that everyone involved in the campaign is well-informed and aligned. LinkLoom ultimately improves productivity and communication within the team, making it easier to manage complex email-based projects.
What it does
LinkLoom allows users to collaborate within email threads by adding annotations. Users could highlight specific parts of an email, leave comments, and share these annotations with other authorized collaborators. This would be valuable for teams working together on projects or handling complex email discussions.
How we built it
I used Django to develop the API with Postgresql as the DBMS, Nylas Email API for retrieving emails, and openAI for auto-generation of annotations.
Challenges we ran into
The major challenge faced was with OpenAI. I initially had an issue purchasing credits as my card kept getting declined. I also had a bit of challenge navigating the API and understanding some concepts.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Integrating with both Nylas and OpenAI are significant achievements. LinkLoom will have significant impact in email communications.
What we learned
My knowledge of AI has improved due largely to the research carried out while developing this project. I also learned a bit of project management.
What's next for LinkLoom API
Developing an add-on for the API to be more pluggable on email clients. Also, the meeting annotation label would be modified to auto-schedule meetings using the Nylas Scheduler API.
Built With
- celery
- django
- nylas
- openai
- postgresql
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