How I Stopped Spending 40 Minutes a Day on Email: The Story Behind One Extension

Иван Курсов — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:53:57 +0000

Morning: I open Gmail and realize that for the next 40 minutes I’m not actually working — I’m wording things. Clarifying details, asking to send something a bit later, politely declining, reminding.

At first, I wrote everything myself. Then, like many others, I moved to ChatGPT. 
At some point, I realized I was spending too much time copy-pasting and switching between tabs, and I thought:
what if an AI email generator lived right inside Gmail and Outlook, so you wouldn’t have to leave the tab at all? 
Just a small browser extension that appears exactly where I already work — in the email interface. 
That’s how AI Email Generator was born.

In the vast majority of everyday tasks, the extension does one very simple thing: it removes the blank white screen. Instead of “How do I start?”, you immediately see a draft and work with that.

When you need to write an email from scratch rather than reply, the flow is the same. You open a new message window, set the goal and tone, describe the situation in a couple of words — and the AI email generator creates a draft that’s already pleasant to work with. As a result, you’re not staring at an empty “Write an email” field — you’re editing an almost finished text.

I added everything I was missing in regular chat interfaces:

Setup in a couple of clicks: Choose the intent, category, tone (from friendly to strictly formal), length, and language.
Quick replies: For Gmail and Outlook, I implemented a quick reply feature. One click — and the draft is ready.
Versatility: The tool works both as an email reply generator and as an assistant for writing emails from scratch.

And most importantly — it’s free. I use this tool myself every day and want it to help others too.

You can try the extension in the Chrome Web Store here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-email-generator/gpnchhiodbelaiodecckkpmfponhcmnf

P.S. I’d really appreciate any feedback in the comments! What features should be added to the extension to make your work even easier?

I snapped — and built an extension that finds emails for me

Иван Курсов — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:38:16 +0000

I had a task: collect email addresses from websites. I went to Google and typed something like “email finding services,” hoping everything had already been invented before me.

And that’s where the real pain started. Dashboards, sign-ups, limits, credits, pricing plans. Heavy, full-scale services — while my task was much simpler: visit a website, spot an interesting project, quickly find email address details for the team, and move on. Or take a list of a hundred domains, run them through a tool once, and get a table. That’s it.

Why email finder services exist in the first place

There’s a whole class of tools known as email finder services. They help you discover contact details of people and companies: by domain, by name, by LinkedIn profile, and so on. Most of them are subscription-based web services with credits — you enter a domain and get a couple of email addresses.

But in real life, the scenarios are broader. You browse the web as usual:

you open the landing page of a small studio;
scroll through a marathon or conference page with partners;
explore a catalog of vendors / franchises / SaaS products;
visit “Authors,” “Team,” or “About Us” sections on any website.

And you realize: the emails are already right there on the page. You just need to collect them quickly and not forget them — instead of constantly switching between tabs and Excel. In these cases, classic email finder services feel like overkill. You want something lightweight, something always “at hand.”

That’s how my browser add-on Email Extractor was born. In this article, I’ll explain why it exists, how it works, and how it differs from traditional solutions.

What Email Extractor does

Email Extractor is a browser extension that lives in your toolbar and:

Scans any page you visit;
Finds all email addresses (including those hidden in the source code);
Saves them along with the source URL;
Lets you export everything in a convenient format in just two clicks.

This approach works perfectly when you’re researching the market and visiting dozens of small websites, browsing landing pages of speakers, experts, or contractors.

Bulk mode: automated email scraping

The second mode is for situations when you already have a list of websites and want to automate email collection instead of clicking through them one by one:

Take a list of domains or specific URLs (10 or 200 — doesn’t matter).
Paste them into the input field inside the extension.
Click “Start.”
Email Extractor goes through those pages and collects all the email addresses it finds.
In the end, you get a consolidated list ready for export.

In this mode, the extension works like a lightweight email scraper, without unnecessary complexity.

Export and further use

Once the required contacts are collected, it’s time to pass them on — to a CRM, an email marketing service, a spreadsheet, or your own database.

Email Extractor supports export to popular formats:

CSV — convenient for Excel, Google Sheets, CRMs, and mailing tools;
TXT — simple and universal, suitable for quick processing or import;
JSON — for those who love automation and custom scripts.

When exporting, not only the email itself is saved, but also the source URL — the page where it was found.

Privacy and transparency

It’s important that the extension behaves as transparently as possible. It doesn’t try to collect anything extra, doesn’t analyze your personal data, and doesn’t send lists to any third-party servers. It only needs two types of information: the email address and the URL of the page where it was found. Everything happens locally in your browser.

I designed the tool from the very beginning so I could honestly say: built with respect for your privacy — no data is stored.

You can download: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/email-extractor-extension/oopmigliikbdfnlfooabmgkiemdggcni

Try it in your own funnel, and share in the comments which other email finder tools you use and how you automate outreach. I’m sure we all have something valuable to share 🙂

Forem: Иван Курсов

How I Stopped Spending 40 Minutes a Day on Email: The Story Behind One Extension

I snapped — and built an extension that finds emails for me

Why email finder services exist in the first place

What Email Extractor does

Bulk mode: automated email scraping

Export and further use

Privacy and transparency