Not every email deserves a handcrafted response. Sometimes, all it takes is a sentence to answer the one burning question that someone has dropped in your inbox, which is why Google is using the power of machine learning to make email triage a little bit faster.

The company announced a new Smart Replies feature for its Inbox email client on Tuesday, which gives users up to three quick options to send back in reply to emails based on a machine learning analysis of the message’s content. People can use the short replies as either a way to quickly respond, or a way to start a longer message. Smart Reply could be a boon to mobile users who are on the go and don’t have time to tap out a whole response.

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