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Write the email you keep rewriting
The email you have rewritten three times, cut in half, with the ask in the first sentence, in your tone. Five minutes. It will not know what you can promise; keep the facts yours.
The tool
Claude
Long documents, careful writing, and following detailed instructions without drifting. The intro blueprints are written for it first. The free plan is enough for this.
Cut it in half
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Rewrite this email so it is half the length, says the ask in the first sentence, and sounds like a calm person. Keep the facts exactly. Do not add anything I did not say. [paste your draft]
What good looks like
Shorter, the ask up top, nothing invented. If it adds a friendly opener you did not write, delete it.
Match who is reading it
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Now give me two versions: one for my manager, one for a customer who is annoyed. Same facts, same ask, different tone. Keep both under 100 words.
What good looks like
Two emails that differ in tone, not in facts. If a fact changes between them, something was invented.
Make the subject line do the work
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Give me five subject lines for this email. Short, specific, no clickbait, and one of them should be the ask itself.
What good looks like
Five you would actually use. Pick the one that says what you need.
Watch out
Do not paste customer names, contract terms or anything marked confidential unless your employer has approved the tool.
Now with your own thing. Same steps. The one on the fridge counts.