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嘿，HN，我一直在研究一个让我烦恼已久的问题。坦白说，直到今天，我们的电子邮件依然杂乱无章、令人疲惫，这实在令人惊讶。即使是现在的“现代”邮件客户端，也只是把我们的邮件放在一个表格中，支持一些键盘快捷键和简单的功能，然后就结束了。更新的客户端提供基于AI的写作助手，而最新的客户端甚至希望我们为每件事都提供提示！这似乎有些倒退。当你输入“找到上周二那家营销公司的最新发票”时，你已经花费了超过应有的时间和精力。目前仍然没有*更高层次的分类，没有更深层次的分组*。每封邮件——项目更新、交易、人际消息——看起来都是一样的。关键附件在需要时总是难以找到。*琐碎的自动更新让我们感到拥挤*，而*长长的转发邮件线程在混乱的链条中依然难以跟踪*。我相信我并不是唯一一个对此感到恼火的人！因此，我创建了Faraday，终于想要彻底解决电子邮件的问题。它在每封到达用户之前，使用分类和提取管道处理所有进入的邮件。*没有提示，没有触发器。*它自动完成三件事： *1. 更高层次的分类：* 这是一条LinkedIn更新、一笔交易、一段人际对话、一条一次性密码（OTP）、一份预订确认吗？不仅仅是“主要与促销”——实际的语义分类，包含约30个不同的类别和子类别。然后，子类别根据最适合它们的方式进行排序。谁在乎上周40封时事通讯的时间顺序呢？它们之间的类型和品牌更为重要。 *2. 上下文提取：* 大多数邮件中相关内容大约只占总文本的12%。它提取这些内容（金额、日期、姓名、动作、代码——不同邮件类型不同），并将其展示在顶部，这样你就能第一时间获取到重要信息。 *3. 线程重构：* 邮件线程实际上就是嵌套的块引用。Faraday将它们重构并重新组装成一个干净、有序的对话树。这一点真的很巧妙。这里有很多困难要克服。让这三层同时在我们电子邮件内容的广泛范围内以收件箱速度工作，优化资源利用率，且不需要用户提供任何训练信号。没有设置或引导。登录后立即生效。构建起来非常棘手。与此同时，还确保了*它是以隐私为先*，从一开始就严格遵循最佳的安全和加密标准(AES 256)。 Faraday中确实有一些巧妙的技术创新（甚至为此申请了两项专利）：它可以在所有Gmail和Outlook账户上使用。它已经上线，符合合规要求，已脱离测试阶段，很多之前沉迷于superhuman和spark的人现在都在使用它 :) 如果你对架构的任何部分感兴趣，我很乐意深入探讨。请试用一下：<a href="https://faraday.email" rel="nofollow">https://faraday.email</a>（提供两周免费试用，之后价格也很实惠）

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Hey HN, I've been working on a problem that had me annoyed since a long while. The fact that our email continues to be unorganized, cluttered, and fatiguing even today, is quite surprising tbh. Even the "modern" clients today simply put our emails in a table, support a few keyboard shortcuts, a few simple features, and are done. The newer ones provide AI-based compose assist, and the newest ones now want us to prompt for everything! That seems backwards. By the time you'll type "find that marketing agency's latest invoice from last Tuesday," you would've already spent more time and effort than you should've needed to.There is still *no higher order classification, no deeper grouping*. Every email — a project update, a transaction, a human message; appears the same. Key attachments are always elusive when needed. *Trivial auto-updates crowd us*, and *long forwarded threads are still painful to follow with the untidy nature of their chaining.*I'm sure I am not the only one who found this irritating!So I built Faraday to finally solve email for good. It uses a classification and extraction pipeline on every incoming email before it has even arrived for the user. *No prompts, no triggers.* It does 3 things automatically:*1. Higher-order classification:* Is this a Linkedin update, a transaction, a human conversation, an OTP, a booking confirmation? Not just "primary vs promotions" — actual semantic classification with ~30 distinct categories and sub-groups. And then the sub-categories are ordered basis what's best for them. Who cares about the chronology within 40 newsletters from last week. The genres and the brands across them are more important.*2. Contextual extraction:* Relevant content in most emails is roughly just 12% of the total text. It extracts that (amounts, dates, names, actions, codes - different for different email types) and surface it at the top, so you get the meat upfront.*3. Thread reconstruction: *Email threads are just terribly nested blockquotes. Faraday reconstructs and reassembles them into a clean, ordered conversation tree. This one is really quite slick.A bunch of things were difficult to do here. Making all three layers work simultaneously across the spread of our email content, at inbox speeds, with optimum resource utilization, without a single training signal from the user. No setup or onboarding. To work as soon as you login. Super tricky to build.Meanwhile, also ensured that *it is privacy-first*, doubling down on the best possible security and encryption standards (AES 256) right from the onset.There are genuinely some nifty technical innovations in Faraday (enough to have even filed 2 patents for them:)It works on top of all Gmail and Outlook accounts. It's live, compliance-approved, out-of-beta and a lot of people (who were earlier hooked on superhuman, spark) are now using this :)Happy to go deep on any part of the architecture that you find interesting. Do try it: <a href="https://faraday.email" rel="nofollow">https://faraday.email</a> (2-week free trial, and much inexpensive after)

展示HN：制作了一个高度组织化的电子邮件客户端，内置无提示的人工智能