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Reply to a long email thread you've just been added to
Forty emails, six people, and someone's added you with 'over to you'. Get a summary of what matters, what's being asked of you and a short reply.
The prompt · ChatGPT
Help me reply to a long email thread I've just been added to. The thread: [paste it, oldest first if you can, removing anything private] My role in this: [e.g. I'm taking over the project, I'm the approver] What I can commit to: [anything] Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. A 5-line summary: what this is about, where it's got to and who wants what. 2. Decisions already made, and questions still open. 3. What's being asked of me specifically. 4. A short reply under 100 words: I've caught up, my answer or next step, and a date. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, dates or results. UK English. Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. paste it, oldest first if you can, removing anything private: a short note you already have. e.g. I'm taking over the project, I'm the approver: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
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