Claude tips and tricks · Starter · 5 minutes
Turn a long email thread into a decision
The job: Get to the point of a thread that went on for days
Twenty replies, three opinions and no answer. Claude can lay out what's actually being decided in a minute, so you can make the call.
How
- Copy the whole thread, oldest message first if you can.
- Paste it with the prompt below.
The prompt to copy
Here is an email thread: [paste]. Tell me in plain English: what is being decided, the options people suggested, who prefers what, what's still unknown, and what you'd ask before deciding. Keep it to one screen.
What a good answer looks like
One screen you could forward to the people in the thread, ending with the question that unblocks it.
The mistake to avoid
Letting Claude make the decision. Ask it to lay out the choice; you make it.
Works the same in ChatGPT and Copilot.