Gmail inbox summary: your daily AI digest
Gmail sorts by folders, not by real importance. InboxBriefs reads your Gmail inbox and hands you what matters, ranked, every morning.
Gmail is great at tidying up, but it doesn't summarize anything: categories (Primary, Promotions, Social), labels and the priority inbox sort by mechanical rules, and you still have to open everything to decide. InboxBriefs connects to Gmail through Google's official read-only authorization, reads the emails received since your last summary, and sends you a digest where the sorting has already happened.
Why Gmail alone isn't enough
- Gmail categories file your emails, but don't tell you which ones matter today
- The priority inbox sorts by mechanical signals, not by understanding the content
- Labels and filters need constant manual maintenance
- In the end, you still open every thread to decide what to handle
How InboxBriefs summarizes your Gmail inbox
Read-only Gmail connection
InboxBriefs requests only the gmail.readonly OAuth scope: at the level of its own infrastructure, Google blocks it from sending, deleting, archiving or modifying any email. Read-only isn't a promise, it's a technical guarantee.
A prioritized digest every morning
Each summary covers the emails received since the previous one (about 24h for a daily send), sorted into urgent, important and FYI, with one or two sentences per message. Even the spam folder is scanned, in case a real message landed there.
Your rules, your sorting
You write plain-language rules (“Prioritize my clients”, “Ignore newsletters”) that InboxBriefs reads before sorting. The summary reflects your priorities, not a generic heuristic.
Rules to copy (and adapt)
- Prioritize emails from my important contacts and any domain that emails me for work.
- Mark as urgent invoices, payment deadlines and requests waiting for a reply today.
- Ignore promotions, newsletters and automated notifications unless there's an incident.
Frequently asked questions
Which Gmail accounts are supported?
Both personal Gmail accounts (@gmail.com) and Google Workspace inboxes (business domains) work: you just authorize via the official Google read-only sign-in.
Can InboxBriefs modify or send emails from my Gmail?
No, never. The gmail.readonly scope granted to Google only allows reading. Any attempt to send, delete or modify would be rejected by Google's servers. Your tokens and summaries are also encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM).
What if I use Outlook or Yahoo?
Today, InboxBriefs connects to Gmail only. Support for other providers (Outlook, Yahoo) is being considered — let us know if you'd want it, it helps us prioritize.
Keep Gmail as your source of truth, and let InboxBriefs do the morning triage for you. You can try it with no credit card: the 10-day free trial includes 10 summaries — enough to feel the difference over a real work week.
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