Problem statement

I have quite a number of unprocessed mails and messages in variety of communication platforms from recruiters. I respect people, but unfortunately cannot respond everyone in a fast manner. It takes time and therefore creates a back-pressure problem in a condition of consumption performance is lower than producing one.

Number of incoming messages is growing every week.

Solution

I want to read a message, review it and put a label or mark it somehow indicating appropriate type of response:

• thank you - thank you for your message, but I am not looking for a job at the moment;
• later (to be implemented) - additional time required for preparing a response, secretary collects messages of that kind and schedules an appointment in a calendar within available time-slot;
• meeting (foreseeable requirement, not in the roadmap at the moment) - respond with a Google Meet link.

Some service processes those marks and labels and composes a response with additional consideration of message language and how far time-wise it was received (extra apologies).

Gmail

At the moment, Gmail based solution looks the most reachable one. Since Google provides quite comprehensive API, integration looks straight-forward.

Project

Nevertheless, project looks quite interesting in variety of aspects. It deals with Google auth, Gmail, language detection, markdown, HTML and general templates processing.

Project is available at Github https://github.com/nantipov/hunter-secretary .