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Let's make the email demo really good

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
search

Research direction

The issue identifies only the email demo and a desired search experience; no files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the email demo and its current search flow, then clarify a bounded feature and acceptance criteria before implementation. Done is not defined beyond making personal email search better without creating a hosted service.

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Description

enhancement

So good that I'll actually want to use it for searching my own email instead of GMail's own search (which is okay but not amazing, and recent tweaks just make it more chaotic).

But not so good that it becomes a service that everyone can just subscribe to -- I don't want to deal with running a service that might go down, etc.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
889
Forks
75
Avg merge
3d 33m
Merged PRs (30d)
12

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