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Your First Task

This guide walks through a complete example to show how dassi works in practice.

Example: Drafting an email reply

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Let’s say you’ve received an email and want help replying.

Step 1: Navigate to your email

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Open your email client (Gmail, Outlook, etc.) in Chrome.

Step 2: Open the dassi sidebar

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Click the dassi icon in your toolbar or press Alt+Shift+D.

Step 3: Ask dassi to help

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Type a prompt like:

Read this email and draft a professional reply.
Accept the meeting invitation and suggest
Wednesday at 2pm as an alternative time.

Step 4: Watch dassi work

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dassi will:

  1. Read the email content on your screen
  2. Take a screenshot to understand the layout
  3. Draft a reply based on your instructions
  4. Show you the draft in the sidebar

Each of these steps appears in the activity section of the response — you can expand it to see exactly what dassi did.

Step 5: Review and refine

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You can ask dassi to adjust the draft:

Make it more casual and shorter

Once you’re happy, ask dassi to type it:

Type this reply into the email compose box and send it

dassi will present a plan before acting — approve it and dassi will fill in the reply field.

Tips for effective prompts

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  • Be specific — “Write a polite decline mentioning I’m unavailable that week” is better than “reply to this”
  • Give context — tell dassi your role, tone preferences, or constraints
  • Iterate — ask dassi to adjust tone, length, or content
  • Use natural language — talk to dassi like you would a colleague

More things to try

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Research across multiple sites:

Compare the pricing of Notion, Coda, and Confluence.
Open each site in a new tab and create a comparison table.

Automate data entry:

Read the data from this spreadsheet and fill out
the form on the next tab with each row

Navigate and configure:

Go to my GitHub notification settings and
disable email notifications for pull request reviews

Summarize and extract:

Read this 10-page article and give me the 5 key takeaways

Create visualizations:

Read the sales data on this page and create
an interactive bar chart showing monthly trends

Next steps

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