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Status: New idea

💡 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:

  • 📌 Importance – Frequent contacts, flagged items, or work-related senders get top visibility.

  • 🏷Category – Auto-labeled into Personal, Work, Promotions, Social, Newsletters, etc.

  • 📄 Summaries – Long messages can show an AI-generated preview to save reading time.

  • 🔕 Custom notifications – Be alerted only for emails you really care about.

  • 🧠 Smart filters – Toggle between “Important only”, “Unread”, or “Newsletters later” in one click.


🛠️ Optional features

  • Feedback loop: Users can reclassify or mark/unmark priority messages to help Thunderbird improve sorting.

  • “Reply later” and “Snooze” per category or sender.

  • Quick actions: e.g., “Archive all promos”, “Mute social threads”.

  • “Unread important” inbox view.

  • “You haven’t replied to this contact in 3 days” gentle nudges.


Benefits

  • Declutters the inbox and makes daily email triage faster.

  • Reduces stress and mental fatigue (especially for busy users).

  • Encourages healthy, consistent email habits.

  • 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.

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