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The AI checks my email every morning and flags what needs doing

He forwards all his Outlook mail to Gmail so the AI can use the Gmail connector. Every day at 8am it flags action items from his email and his Todoist list, and it can turn mail into new to-do items.

How it works

  1. Forwards his Outlook mail, incoming and outgoing, to Gmail
  2. Connects the AI to Gmail with the Gmail connector
  3. The AI alerts him at 8am every day to action items from email or his Todoist list
  4. It can create new to-do items from mail

Why it’s worth knowing

He routes all his mail through Gmail just so the AI can read it. Every morning at 8 it hands him the action items from his inbox and his to-do list in one place.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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