How It Works
Inbox triage
Sorting incoming email or messages by urgency — reply now, later, delegate or ignore. In AI products it means letting an assistant label, summarize and draft replies to your inbox so you only handle what matters.
Origin · no single documented coiner
'Triage' comes from French battlefield medicine (Napoleonic era, sorting the wounded). 'Inbox triage' is a productivity phrase from the email era, now widely used for AI email assistants; no single coiner.
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