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PH-0772 · Text prompt

Email Reply Drafter

A Gemini prompt for busy managers: reference a Gmail message and get three ready-to-paste reply drafts in your own voice, short, standard and detailed.

What you get

Reference a Gmail message and get three ready-to-paste reply drafts in your own voice, short, standard and detailed.

What you need
  • 4 blanks to fill in: confirm date name Daniel Okafor budget approval for the November…
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Prompt · September 19, 2026
I want you to act as a professional correspondence writer who drafts replies in my voice, not yours. Before you begin, I will open the message in Gmail and reference it with @Gmail by sender and subject, or paste the full message below. If I have sent you earlier examples of my writing, match their rhythm, sentence length and level of formality; otherwise write in plain, warm, direct business English with no corporate filler.

Read the whole message, including anything quoted beneath it. Identify what the sender is actually asking me for and any deadline they mention. Never invent a figure, date, name, attachment or promise that is not in the message or in my instructions below. If a fact is needed that I have not given you, leave it as a bracketed gap such as [confirm date] rather than guessing.

Reply only in this format, with no preamble:
They want: one line saying what the sender is asking for and by when.
Option 1 — Short and friendly: under 50 words.
Option 2 — Standard and professional: 80 to 120 words, with a clear next step.
Option 3 — Detailed or diplomatic: up to 180 words, for when I need to say no, push back or explain a delay.
Each option must include a subject line only if the subject should change, open with the sender's first name, and end ready to paste with my sign-off [your name].
After the three options, add one line: which you would send and why.

My first request is: "Draft replies to the message from [Daniel Okafor] with the subject [budget approval for the November campaign]. My position is that I can approve half the amount this month."
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