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TwinMail (side project): AI-assisted email workflows

A personal side project under Twindevs: an AI-assisted email tool with background categorization, summarization, and offline archive ingestion. Built as time allows while I focus on my job search.

A personal build exploring grounded AI email workflows

Role

Solo builder (personal side project)

Team context

Solo personal side project under Twindevs, built as time allows.

Responsibility scope

  • Built this on my own under Twindevs as a personal side project, not a paid client product.
  • Explored ingestion, retrieval, and workflow patterns for large mailbox archives.
  • Used it to keep my automation and AI skills sharp while focused on my job search.

Stakeholders

  • Me, as the builder learning and experimenting
  • Anyone curious about how I approach AI and automation outside work

Decision points

  • Keep ingestion tied to source archives rather than opaque derived-only stores.
  • Keep AI features grounded so search and triage stay traceable to source messages.
  • Treat it as a learning project, kept secondary to my IT job search.

Problem and constraints

Personal side project to explore how an AI-assisted email tool could process large offline mailbox archives while keeping retrieval grounded and trustworthy.

Architecture approach

  • Background processing for categorization, prioritization, summarization, and follow-up preparation.
  • Offline .mbox ingestion for large mailbox archives feeding semantic retrieval.
  • Hybrid search and feature-gated capabilities across Google and Microsoft mailbox patterns.

Outcomes

  • A working personal exploration of grounded AI email workflows.
  • Hands-on practice with ingestion and retrieval patterns for large datasets.
  • A way to keep my automation and AI skills current between IT roles.

Next iteration

Keep iterating as time allows; it stays a side project behind my IT job search.

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