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💡 Idea
Add a Smart Inbox to Thunderbird that automatically prioritizes and categorizes incoming emails, helping users focus on what matters most while reducing email overload.
🧠 How it works
The Smart Inbox analyzes incoming messages (locally) and intelligently sorts them using a mix of heuristics and optional on-device AI. Messages are grouped and highlighted based on:
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📌 Importance – Frequent contacts, flagged items, or work-related senders get top visibility.
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🏷️ Category – Auto-labeled into Personal, Work, Promotions, Social, Newsletters, etc.
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📄 Summaries – Long messages can show an AI-generated preview to save reading time.
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🔕 Custom notifications – Be alerted only for emails you really care about.
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🧠 Smart filters – Toggle between “Important only”, “Unread”, or “Newsletters later” in one click.
🛠️ Optional features
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Feedback loop: Users can reclassify or mark/unmark priority messages to help Thunderbird improve sorting.
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“Reply later” and “Snooze” per category or sender.
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Quick actions: e.g., “Archive all promos”, “Mute social threads”.
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“Unread important” inbox view.
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“You haven’t replied to this contact in 3 days” gentle nudges.
✅ Benefits
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Declutters the inbox and makes daily email triage faster.
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Reduces stress and mental fatigue (especially for busy users).
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Encourages healthy, consistent email habits.
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Gives Thunderbird a modern, Gmail-like experience — while remaining lightweight and private.
🔐 Privacy & Open Source Alignment All processing happens locally on the user’s device — no email content is shared or analyzed in the cloud.
Everything is fully aligned with Thunderbird’s open-source philosophy, respecting user privacy, transparency, and control. The feature would be optional and 100% customizable.
