Talanoa
Email client that turns messages into chat-style conversations, with local AI, built-in tasks, and calendar tools.
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Product Overview
What is Talanoa?
Talanoa organizes email around people rather than subject lines, presenting messages as clean conversations without repeated quotes, signatures, or disclaimers. It brings multiple accounts, tasks, and scheduling into one workspace. Its on-device AI searches emails and attachments, summarizes discussions, and drafts replies, while offline access keeps existing messages available without an internet connection.
Key Features
Chat-Style Email
Groups emails by sender into conversations with message bubbles, removing repeated quotes, signatures, and disclaimers.
Unified Inbox
Combines Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, and other IMAP accounts into a single chronological inbox.
On-Device AI Assistant
Answers questions across emails, attachments, tasks, and calendars using a locally running model, with sources shown and actions requiring confirmation.
Summaries and Personalized Replies
Extracts decisions and next steps from long threads, drafts replies in your writing style, and translates messages.
Integrated Tasks and Scheduling
Turns emails into tasks with deadlines, progress tracking, and notes, while supporting meeting responses and booking links.
Offline Access
Keeps email available locally for reading, searching, AI assistance, and drafting, with queued messages sent after reconnecting.
Use Cases
- Multi-Account Email Management : Manage work and personal inboxes in one place without switching between email providers.
- Client Communication : Follow ongoing client conversations by person instead of piecing together separate subject-based threads.
- Project Follow-Ups : Turn requests and approvals into trackable tasks while keeping the original email attached for context.
- Meeting Coordination : Respond to invitations and share available meeting times directly from email.
- Private Email Assistance : Search correspondence, summarize discussions, and prepare replies without uploading email content to a cloud AI service.
- Travel and Offline Work : Review stored messages and prepare responses during flights, commutes, or unreliable connectivity.
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