Theodore Dignet
Founder, Inboxer
Building Inboxer after years of running founder inboxes on the side of building product. Writes about how AI changes the texture of professional communication.
Posts by Theodore
- Comparison·7 min read
AI email for Outlook in 2026: what's actually available
Outlook users were second-class citizens during the first wave of AI inbox tools. That gap has mostly closed — here are the five options worth knowing about, organised by what they actually do.
- Workflow·7 min read
From meeting transcript to action items: the extraction nobody talks about
Transcription is solved. Extraction — turning the transcript into useful, non-bloated tasks — is where most meeting-AI tools still fall short. Here's what good extraction actually looks like.
- Opinion·7 min read
The case for approval-gated AI email (and against auto-send)
Fully-automated AI email sounds great until the model ships something you wouldn't have. Why every credible product in 2026 keeps a human approval click between the draft and the send.
- Explainer·8 min read
How AI email triage actually works
Every 'AI email' product claims smart triage. Almost none explain the mechanic. Here's the unmagical breakdown: how the classifier decides, what categories matter, and the failure modes nobody talks about.
- Feature·6 min read
Voice-matched AI drafts: how the model learns to sound like you
AI drafts have a recognisability problem. Voice matching is the technical answer — fewer 'I hope this finds you well' openers, more drafts indistinguishable from the email you'd have written.
- Workflow·8 min read
How to reach Inbox Zero in 2026 with AI
A practical workflow for keeping any inbox at zero — triage, drafts, and meeting follow-ups, all driven by AI but kept under human control.
- Workflow·6 min read
5 signs your inbox is costing you 10 hours a week
Most knowledge workers tolerate inbox dysfunction the way we tolerate slow wifi: by adapting around it. Here are the five most reliable signs you've crossed the threshold where a tool starts paying for itself.
- Comparison·6 min read
Gmail vs Outlook AI assistants: what we learned building both
Building Inboxer for both Gmail and Outlook surfaced real differences in how the two providers expose their APIs. Here's what matters for users.
- Use case·5 min read
From 200 unread to nothing: how founders use Inboxer
Inboxer's most common user is a founder drowning in 200+ unread emails. Here's the exact playbook the busiest of them follow to get to zero.