简而言之:邮件数量将呈爆炸式增长。收件箱将不复存在。邮件将作为一种 API 持续存在。
五年后,没有人会每天打开五次 Gmail。
普通知识工作者每天收到 121 封邮件。¹ 这相当于工作时间内每四分钟就有一封。
收件箱就像一条不断加速的传送带。你打开 Gmail。阅读。判断。回复。一次处理一封。但传送带不会等待。它只会越来越快。
今天的分拣方式是通用的:“这是老板发的。我今天需要处理。下一个。垃圾邮件。归档。垃圾邮件。归档。简报,阅读并归档。” 明天的分拣则是个性化的。由用户定义的技能与规则。用英语编程,编码你的优先级、你的人际关系、你的工作流程。
一张收据到达,在你看到它之前,它已经自动转发到费用报销平台。一个入站线索进入 CRM,经过评分,一封草拟的方案已经在你的发件箱里等待。工作流从邮件到达的那一刻就开始了。
然后是归档。多年积累的关于你每一段关系、每一个承诺、每一个决策的背景信息。这段历史变成了一个个人背景层,指导你的 AI 如何处理下一条消息。设备端模型会私密地处理敏感信息。²
收件箱消失了。剩下的只有那 6 封真正重要的邮件。
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Radicati Group 2025:普通办公室职员每天收到 121 封邮件;高管每天收到 150-200 封以上 ↩︎
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微软工作趋势指数,2025 年 6 月:40% 的员工在早上 6 点前查看邮件,推动了对自动分拣的需求 ↩︎
In short : Email volumes will explode. The inbox will disappear. Email will persist as an API.
Nobody will open Gmail five times a day in five years.
The average knowledge worker receives 121 emails per day.1 That’s one every four minutes during working hours.
The inbox is a conveyor belt that keeps accelerating. You open Gmail. You read. You decide. You respond. One at a time. But the belt doesn’t wait. It just moves faster.
Today’s triage is generic : “This is from your boss. I need to work on that today. Next. Spam. Archive. Spam. Archive. Newsletter, read & archive.” Tomorrow’s is personal. User-defined skills & rules. Programming in English that encodes your priorities, your relationships, your workflow.
A receipt arrives & forwards itself to the expense platform before you see it. An inbound lead hits the CRM, gets scored, & a draft proposal waits in your outbox. The workflow starts the moment the email lands.
Then there’s the archive. Years of context about every relationship, commitment, & decision you’ve made. That history becomes a personal context layer that informs how your AI handles the next message. On-device models process sensitive messages privately.2
The inbox disappears. What remains are the 6 messages that actually matter.