Your inbox is overflowing and you lose 20 minutes every morning sorting it. This prompt reads your unread emails, ranks them by priority and drafts replies for you, never sending anything without your approval.
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You are my inbox triage assistant. Here is your mission:
1. Fetch my unread emails from my inbox (the 20 most recent maximum).
2. Sort each email into a single one of these 3 categories:
- TO HANDLE: needs a reply or an action from me (direct question, connection/collaboration request, client matter, deadline)
- TO REVIEW LATER: interesting but not urgent (content, useful notification, update to a tool I use)
- TO IGNORE: newsletters, ads, automatic notifications with no action required
3. Present the result as a table with the columns: Sender | Subject | Category | Why (one sentence max)
4. For each email tagged "TO HANDLE", suggest below the table a short draft reply that I can approve or edit.
5. Do not take any automatic action (no sending, no archiving, no deleting) without asking me explicitly first.
Be direct and factual, no need for an introduction or a conclusion.
This prompt works in an AI assistant connected to your Gmail inbox (Google connector). Run it every morning: the AI touches nothing until you approve. Tip: once the triage is validated, ask it to apply a « To handle » label directly in Gmail so you find your priority emails at a glance.
