🧠 From 5-Minute Emails to 1-Minute Magic — Thanks, Cursor

✉️ Today’s story:

You know that feeling when you’re halfway through a repetitive task and think, there has to be a better way?

That was me yesterday.

I had a list of 100 email addresses in a spreadsheet. Each one needed a custom response — but only sometimes with an attachment. Here’s the grind:

• Copy email address
• Paste into report tool
• Get result
• If positive → save PDF
• Open new email
• Paste address, subject, and template
• Attach PDF (if needed)
• Send
• Repeat… 99 more times.

3 to 5 minutes per email. Multiply that by 100? No thanks.

So I fired up Cursor and asked it to help me kill the monotony.

Here’s what I built:

• Upload the spreadsheet
• See a clean list of all names + emails
• For each contact:
  • Run the report manually
  • Click “Send”
  • If negative → it sends a templated email
  • If positive → it asks for the PDF, then sends the right version
  • Marks the contact as “Done” and moves to the next one

Now, I’m sending tailored emails in under a minute each — without losing my mind.

🚀 And here’s the best part:

I didn’t write a single line of code.

Seriously. I just explained the problem to Cursor, like I was talking to a dev teammate — and it built the whole thing for me.

Cursor is like ChatGPT meets a developer IDE. It understands what you’re trying to do and scaffolds the code, the UI, even the flow logic — all from natural language prompts.

You don’t need to be a coder. You just need to be annoyed enough with a problem to want a better way.

💡 The takeaway?

If a task feels stupid… it probably is.

And AI is brilliant at killing stupid.