A tiny fix for a daily irritation.

Translated by AI from Swedish. Read the original alongside it whenever you like.

Do you need to feel in control too? Read on.

When you connect AI to your own tools (via MCP, for example), little irritations quickly appear. One of mine: I couldn’t give my agents and assistants a link to a particular email thread in a way they could actually use. Gmail’s links are completely useless for that 🤬

Right. Time to remind myself of a hacker’s mindset. Time to let an AI help build a tiny Gmail add-on (an Apps Script). Now I can open an email, click a button, get the email’s actual ID, hand it over to my AI and have it read exactly the right thread. Five minutes, problem solved.

The distance between user and developer has never been smaller.

(Is this something you’d find useful? Say the word, and the team and I will package it up this weekend. I’m going to tidy up the UX anyway, so I might as well make a generic version, but only if there’s interest.)