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Features


## Tame Your Gmail Inbox
We added Gmail integration and several new AI Tools to help you manage the flood of your incoming email. These Tools only show on Gmail pages. Gmail Tools are available on the FREE Standard plan. Watch the videos below for details.

## Folder Tools
All these Tools work on **the first 100 unread email threads** in the folder that you're currently looking at. The Tools can all be edited or copied. The Tools have access to the following data for each email thread: 
* Subject
* Sender
* Snippet (the 1-2 line preview of the email that shows)
* Labels (the labels on the email thread)

### XPERIMENTAL: Add labels to unread emails
You tell Ask Steve what you want, and it will try to find the threads you specify and label them accordingly. This is marked XPERIMENTAL because it can be hit or miss. This tool may work better with reasoning models like Gemini 2.5 Flash, OpenAI o3, DeepSeek R1, etc. 
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### XPERIMENTAL: Archive unread emails
You tell Ask Steve what you want, and it will try to find the threads you specify and archive them. This tool may work better with reasoning models like Gemini 2.5 Flash, OpenAI o3, DeepSeek R1, etc.
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### List specific unread emails
You could try to figure out the exact boolean search to get the subset of emails that you want (if it would even be possible), or now you can just ask for what you want using natural language. Clicking on any of the list items navigates directly to that email. This tool may work better with reasoning models like Gemini 2.5 Flash, OpenAI o3, DeepSeek R1, etc.
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### Summarize unread emails
A user-customizable summary of the first 100 unread emails.  
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## Email Thread Tools
All these Tools work on the email thread that you're currently looking at. The Tools can all be edited or copied. The Tools have access to the following data for each email thread: 
* Subject
* Sender
* Body (the contents of the most recent email in the thread)
* Snippet (the 1-2 line preview of the email that shows)
* Labels (the labels on the email thread)

### Draft a reply
Give Ask Steve your writing instructions and writing samples, as well as what you want your reply to include. It puts the drafted reply right in the reply box. It remembers the writing instructions and samples, so you only need to enter them once. And you can keep iterating until it writes the way you want it to. Works much better than Gmail's built in reply drafting which generates really generic stuff.   
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### Save Events in Google Calendar
Run on any email or text selection to create Google Calendar events. Works much better than the "Create event" button in Gmail which can't do this at all.   
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### Summarize this email thread
You customize what you want in your summary, instead of having to use what Gmail provides (if Gemini is even available). 
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## Writing Tools
Get help writing, rewriting and editing right in the Gmail compose window with the [Writing Helper](/docs/writing-helper).
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## Already Have Ask Steve Installed and Want to Add the Gmail Tools? 
You can install all the Gmail tools from the [Tool Packs page](https://quickstart.asksteve.to/packs.html). Ask Steve needs to be installed and enabled.

## Questions or Problems? 
Ask for help in our [User Community](https://groups.google.com/g/ask-steve)





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## You down with MCP? 
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We've been building direct integrations between Ask Steve and [a number of services](/docs/connections) (Sheets, Calendar, Excel, Slack, etc.). We thought it would be cool if Ask Steve could also connect to remote MCP servers, which would unlock **infinitely more integrations**. 

If you haven't heard of [MCP](https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol), it's basically a middleware layer between an LLM and the existing API of an online service - think Gmail, Sheets, Asana, Salesforce etc. Anything that exposes an API can be made available for an LLM to use via MCP. So now aside from just processing words, the model can actually INTERACT WITH AND TAKE ACTION in other services.

## Benefits of MCP
The biggest benefit of this is that you can now interact with **any MCP-enabled service**, versus just the ones that we have explicitly built support for. Right now we've built [~15 connections](/docs/connections) into Ask Steve, but now you can connect to THOUSANDS of applications. Zapier alone says [they support 7,000+](https://zapier.com/mcp).

The biggest difference is that in the dedicated integrations we build, we are deciding ahead of time the action to be taken (e.g. "Add a Contact") and the sequence of steps to accomplish that, and using an LLM as one step in a sequence. Typically that step is only to take unstructured data and turn it into structured data that can be written into the target system. 

With MCPs, you're basically telling the LLM to do something, and it will look at the MCP tools that is has at its disposal, decide if it can use any of them, and then tries to do things. You are trusting the model with the whole task, vs. just a small piece of it.

Which leads to the second big benefit - which is that you can ask for any "combination" of things and it will try to figure out how to accomplish them. This means that **you don't need to know what you want to do ahead of time**. For example "If the contact is named Mike and works as a recruiter, add them to Crelate, otherwise add them to Salesforce". You could never write code to support the infinite variations, but the LLM can figure it out!

Whether it works or not is another matter, but I have been consistently surprised at (a) how good the models can do sometimes (b) how bad the models can do sometimes :) You never know until you try things!

## Ask Steve and MCP

After doing the research, we came to the conclusion that **I** shouldn't build anything, because the model decides what MCP tools to call, so we should just wait until the model providers MCP-enable their API offerings. 

Which as of the last few days is now the case!

- [Anthropic has a beta MCP connector for their API](https://www.anthropic.com/news/agent-capabilities-api). You add the specs for your MCP servers to your API call and Claude does everything else behind the scenes - it connects to the servers, retrieves tools, executes the calls, keeps making calls until it's done, etc. This is nice because your client doesn't really need to do anything. 

- [OpenAI has added something similar](https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/mcp/mcp_tool_guide) to their Responses API. 

- [Google has also implemented something for Gemini](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/function-calling?example=meeting#model_context_protocol_mcp), but their implementation seems to put more work on the client, so isn't supported by Ask Steve. 
<br />
All that said, while it's now possible to CONNECT to MCP servers, doing anything that requires authentication (which is the interesting stuff) still requires work.

Let's say you want an LLM to be able to interact with a Google Sheet of yours:
- First you need to find a trusted MCP server for Google Sheets somewhere and login/create an account with that service.
- Then you'll need to OAuth authenticate with Google Sheets on that MCP server to give it access to your Google Sheets. 
- Then the MCP server provider will either give you your own unique URL to use (but you better make sure no one else sees it, because if they do, they now have access to all your Google Sheets) or a generic URL and a unique access token.
- Then you need to add the url of the MCP server and optionally the access token to your API request. 
<br />

For the flexibility it provides, it might be worth it! So now you know - Ask Steve can now call LLMs that support MCP to interact with other services. We added new MCP model templates for Anthropic and OpenAI that you can use to get started quickly. Watch the video above to see how to set everything up!

## Questions or Problems? 
Ask for help in our [User Community](https://groups.google.com/g/ask-steve)





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## It's hard to know what to believe online
There are people out there intentionally trying to manipulate your opinion and feed you mis- and disinformation.

Social media companies have largely given up defending against this, so we have to protect ourselves. But manually verifying everything you read is so time consuming that it's basically impossible. The Free Fact Checker helps make that quicker and easier.

**Learn more and get it now [here](/free-fact-checker)!**




The Internet is Full of Lies. Protect Yourself with our Free Fact Checker


## Ask Steve Version 2.0

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Ask Steve v2.0 continues our efforts to make the power of Ask Steve accessible with 1-click. In this release that's primarily achieved by adding Tool Buttons that enable 1-click access to your Tools on any site. They can be configured to only show on specific sites, you can style them, pull data from the current text selection, the current page, or a specific part of a page, and more. 

View the full release notes [here](/docs/release-notes).



We're Excited to Announce Ask Steve 2.0 - The Latest Release of Our 1-Click AI Assistant


## Get charts without leaving the web page that you're on
* Run the "Chart this for me" Tool on any text or table selection, or an entire page
* Pick the type of chart that you want and add any additional instructions
* Wait while Steve figures out the best way to represent your data and generates a chart for you!
* You can resize the floating panel or the chat panel to enlarge the chart
* Click on the chart to see it at full size and download it
* Note: different LLM models may work very differently!

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## Try out the Ask Steve Writing Helper today
* Ask Steve now adds a small transparent icon to the top right of any multi-line textfield. 
* Click on the icon to bring up the [Writing Helper](/docs/writing-helper)
* If there's no text it will help you write something. If there is, it will help you rewrite or analyze it. 
* Unlike many of the other writing helpers on the market that give you a very limited set of options ("more formal", "more friendly"), you can do **ANYTHING YOU WANT**. Ask it to improve your email. Or translate it. Or add emoji to it. Or analyze it for bias. Or add a joke about alligators in the middle somewhere. Or make a reusable Tool that uses several examples of your writing style to rewrite the text in your personal style. Anything you can ask an LLM to do, you can now do right where you're writing. 
* `Enter` gives you the results in a floating panel so you can review and edit if you like. 
* `Command-Enter` (or `Control-Enter` on Windows/ChromeOS) overwrites the existing text if you're feeling lucky. 
* `Command-Z` (or `Control-Z` on Windows/ChromeOS) while the Writing Helper is open tries to UNDO back to the last text. 
* Temporarily get rid of it with a right-click, permanently turn it off in the [Settings](/docs/settings). 
* Let us know what you think!

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Get AI writing help right where you're already at with Ask Steve


## Did You Know?
That Slack is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge"? Or that it was created as an internal communication tool by the game company Tiny Speck while they were working on a game called Glitch. Glitch wasn't hitting escape velocity, so they pivoted and went all in on Slack.

And what a pivot it was!

You may also not know that Ask Steve can now write results directly into a public Slack channel or a private Slack group, which makes it super easy to capture and share content and quick thoughts as you're going about your day. 

If you're a Slack user, give it a try! As soon as you create an account you'll get a free 30 day trial of Ask Steve Premium, which gives you access to Slack tools. 

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## Questions or Problems? 
Ask for help in our [User Community](https://groups.google.com/g/ask-steve)





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Get AI writing help right where you're already at with Ask Steve

Use AI and Ask Steve to Share Links, Comments, Summaries etc. Directly into Slack

Share links, comments, summaries, etc. to any public Slack channel with 1-click, without leaving the page you're on

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The Internet is Full of Lies. Protect Yourself with our Free Fact Checker

We're Excited to Announce Ask Steve 2.0 - The Latest Release of Our 1-Click AI Assistant

Quickly visualize any data by Asking Steve's AI to chart it for you

Get AI writing help right where you're already at with Ask Steve

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