Will the agent send emails without my approval?

No. The agent saves drafts in your Gmail drafts folder. You review and send them yourself. Nothing leaves your outbox without your explicit action.

Can it handle multiple email accounts?

Yes. Connect each Gmail account through gog and specify which account to triage in your message. You can run triage on both accounts in one command.

What about emails with attachments?

The agent reads the email body and subject line for categorization. It flags emails with attachments so you know to open them, but it does not open or modify attachments.

Playbook

Email Inbox Triage: Reclaim Your Inbox in Minutes

Let your agent categorize emails by urgency, draft routine replies, and surface what actually needs your attention.

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What You Will Get

Email is the tax every business owner pays. You open your inbox Monday morning to find 73 unread messages — vendor invoices mixed with client questions mixed with newsletters mixed with that one genuinely urgent request buried at message 54. Manually scanning every subject line wastes the best hours of your day.

With inbox triage set up, your agent connects to Gmail through the gog skill, reads your unread messages, and sorts them into four buckets: Urgent (needs your response today), Important (needs action this week), Low Priority (can wait), and Noise (newsletters, promotions, automated receipts). You get a summary on WhatsApp, Telegram, or Slack with counts per bucket and a quick preview of each urgent item.

For the routine stuff — meeting confirmations, simple yes-or-no questions, standard vendor replies — the agent drafts responses you can approve with a single tap. Fifty emails become five decisions. The whole process takes about 15 minutes when you would have spent over an hour doing it manually. Setup takes around 10 minutes.

Setup Steps

Connect your inbox and start triaging in about 10 minutes.

Connect Gmail with gog

Enable the gog (Google Workspace) skill and authorize your Gmail account. Grant read and draft permissions so the agent can scan your inbox and create draft replies without sending anything on its own.

Define Your Priority Buckets

Message your agent: 'When triaging my inbox, sort emails into four categories — Urgent (client requests, payment issues, anything with a same-day deadline), Important (project updates, partner emails), Low Priority (informational updates, non-urgent internal), and Noise (newsletters, marketing, automated receipts).'

Set Up Your VIP List

Tell the agent which senders always rank as Urgent: key clients, your accountant, your co-founder. Messages from these addresses skip the algorithm and go straight to the top of the list.

Enable Draft Responses

Instruct the agent: 'For any email that is a simple confirmation, scheduling request, or yes/no question, draft a polite reply and save it in my Gmail drafts folder. Tag the draft with [AGENT-DRAFT] in the subject so I can review it.'

Choose Your Summary Channel

Pick where you want the triage summary delivered — WhatsApp for on-the-go, Slack for desktop workflow, or Telegram for a clean bot experience. The summary includes bucket counts and the first two lines of each Urgent email.

Schedule or Trigger Manually

Run the triage on a schedule (every morning at 8 AM) or trigger it manually by messaging 'Triage my inbox now.' Some users run it twice a day — morning and after lunch.

Review and Approve Drafts

Open Gmail, check the [AGENT-DRAFT] tagged messages, tweak if needed, and hit send. Over time the agent learns your tone and the drafts need fewer edits.

Manual Inbox vs. Agent-Triaged Inbox

Manual Triage

60-90 minutes scanning every email
Urgent messages buried under newsletters
Routine replies typed out one by one
Mental fatigue before real work starts
Easy to miss follow-ups

Agent-Triaged Inbox

15-minute review of prioritized summary
Urgent items surfaced immediately
Draft replies ready for one-tap approval
Fresh mental energy for deep work
Follow-up reminders built in

Tips and Best Practices

Start with Read-Only

Begin by letting the agent categorize without drafting. Once you trust the sorting, enable draft mode. This builds confidence before the agent touches your outbox.

Unsubscribe Aggressively

If the Noise bucket is consistently 40+ emails, ask the agent to list the top repeat offenders. Unsubscribe from them and the triage gets faster every week.

Use Labels for Tracking

Have the agent apply Gmail labels (Urgent, Important, Low, Noise) so you can filter manually later. This also gives you data on how your inbox breaks down over time.

Frequently Asked Questions

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